From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 17 10:46:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A544F37BC39 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA09252; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:58:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Arun Sharma , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site In-Reply-To: <20000817220802.A6830@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Yes, but one needs a good desktop environment for desktop use, and > twm doesn't cut it. One has to either accept GPL'd software for > such things, or duplicate that entire effort with a BSD license. But FreeBSD is a server OS. Most everything the hackers is do is server-centric. I would not ask them to change. Just let the KDE folks do their thing and let our port maintainers do their's. In other words, we do have perfectly good desktop if you want one. In fact, we have two. We have as many window managers as are existent. And so what about the GPL. Do you (you rhetorically speaking) use tar? Do you use bash? Do you use gzip? I don't reject using good functioning software based on license. I even pay for software that fits my needs. The license _is not_ the software. Raul, didn't you start this thread with a complaint against license zeal? Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message