From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 16 16: 1: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8453537B571 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00873; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:00:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000816165928.05721c70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:00:21 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Sun's web site In-Reply-To: <20000816221119.B7276@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry, Rahul, but being ethical is not a "hangup." The GPL is destructive, and is aimed right at the hearts of corporations such as Sun. They are very, VERY foolish to let it in the door. --Brett At 10:41 AM 8/16/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >Take a look at www.sun.com today. The biggest thing on it is the GNOME >footprint. > >Is this of interest to BSD? I think so, for a few reasons: >(1) Since Sun has an interest in making gnome work on solaris (they >have announced that gnome 2.0 will get bundled with solaris when it's >ready), it will hopefully not develop in too linux-specific a way >from now on. >(2) Gnome works very well with FreeBSD, and I think with all BSD's, >and pushing it (and KDE) can definitely help push the BSD userbase. >(3) It is yet another counterexample of corporates disliking GPL >software. I hate these license wars and, after reading these lists >for some time, I know I'm not alone (though I don't know what the >percentages are). But a far-from-insignificant section of the BSD >advocates enjoys flaming the GPL violently, at any provocation, in a >way that seems to do more harm than good. Lots of software being >developed for linux is ported to BSD but not emphasised very much >by the BSD community, and I think the licensing is part of the reason; >why not get over this hangup, and use these things to promote BSD >the same way they're promoting linux? > >Rahul. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message