From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 13:44:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CA937B652 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:44:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.196] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0ED22BC0104; Sun, 02 Apr 2000 16:43:25 -0400 Received: (from wdf@localhost) by picusnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA03243 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:45:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wdf) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:45:27 -0400 From: William Freeman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re:Re:What is FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000402154527.A3227@gwernache.picusnet.com> Reply-To: William Freeman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Communism, especialy in the soclialist version, goes against human nature by makeing peole help each other and remove their ability to have private propperty. i can't think of somthing to compare the GPL to except "sure, you can modify this, but you have to give EVERYONE your changes, too! !!". the BSD lisence lets anyone make modifications and keep them secret if they wish, however i'm probably too young to have heard of any time when this actualy presented a problem. in fact, i can't even think of an example of this happening with anything other than Apache. i don't work for a company, infact i'm not even out of high school yet, so i'd give code back because i have nothing to gain from keeping it a secret. However, i like that i could if i wanted to, unlike with the GPL. William Freeman http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP -- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message