From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 12 12: 9:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B1537B407 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07578 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.168.205] (cerberus [192.168.168.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5CJB2K59182 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:03:14 -0700 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rich Morin Subject: Re: Evan Leibovitch on BSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:34 PM -0600 6/12/01, Brett Glass wrote: >The article at > >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2772296,00.html > >subtly suggests that there must be something wrong with BSD's philosophy >or licensing because GPLed software (in particular, Linux, KDE, etc.) is >the focus of more and more prominent startups. (Needless to say, as someone >who has a strong vested interest in Linux, he's not exactly unbiased.) It's >probably worth setting him straight in in the TalkBack. Actually, I think he raises an interesting point. IBM surely knows about BSD; why, then, are they spending $2B or so on Linux. Part of the issue could be that Linux has mindshare, but I'm not sure that's the whole of it. I wonder, in particular, whether IBM is concerned that going with the university-style license might allow M$ to "embrace and extend" their work. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message