From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 4 06:51:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01712 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 06:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA01668 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 06:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa07363; 4 May 98 9:50 EDT Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.18]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28231; Mon, 4 May 1998 09:50:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA02704; Mon, 4 May 1998 09:50:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 09:50:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Nicole cc: Brett Glass , FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nicole wrote: > I have heard one good argument against the FreeBSD liscense altho I > don't know h ow true it is.. > > Their agument was that the license would allow someone (like M$) to take > Freebs d and add some propritary stuff to it (like Front page > extensions, active X etc) and sell it without having to give anything > back to the FreeBSD group or even s tate that it was FreeBSD. The niggest problem with this argument IMHO is that I'd be happy to see *BSD code incorperated into any MS product. If anything it would be the part that works. If that API experienced growth in its usage because it enabled robust, portable applications so much the better. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message