From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 7 7:50:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B48A37BD20 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0610F756F; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032FE1D8F; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:52:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-BSD FUD In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000607093152.008b4910@mail85.pair.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: :Strange thing... I wanted to make sure to know what exactly "fud" means, so :I checked Merriam-Webster's online dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/). FUD is an acronym for Fear, Uncertaintay, Doubt. The author misses the entire point of the BSD license, which is that commercial vendors (or anyone for that matter) are free to use the cade as they deem fit, so long as they acknowledge the originator. He really doesn't understand that no one cares if the code is integrated into someone elses commercial venture, and they keep the changes to themselves. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message