Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:46:55 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <20000825084655.A8339@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <200008242000.NAA13340@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:00:16PM %2B0000 References: <20000819112135.A16479@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <200008242000.NAA13340@usr06.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Aug 24, 2000 at 20:00:16: > > Terry Lambert said on Aug 19, 2000 at 01:31:48: > > > > If they are giving away their source, they probably aren't planning on > > > > making much of a profit from it any more. If they use the GPL, they can > > > > be pretty sure that no one else will make one, either. > > > > > > If I have a beer, and I'm not going to drink it, if I piss in it, > > > I can be pretty sure no one will drink it, either. > > > > A totally ridiculous and irrelevant analogy, and exactly what I meant > > with my licensing wars comment earlier. A more hardline commercial > > developer may argue that BSD-licensing code is "pissing in it" because > > people will always prefer to use that instead of a commercial > > equivalent. (eg, SSH versus OpenSSH -- it's fairly clear that it was > > the existence of OpenSSH which forced the SSH people to change their > > licensing policy a few days ago.) > > You don't think the expiration of the remaining RSA patent in > September had anything to do with it? Nope. Because SSH2 doesn't use RSA. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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