From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 17 11: 7:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4294837B868 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21513 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2000 18:07:52 -0000 Received: from du151.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.151) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 17 Aug 2000 18:07:52 -0000 Message-ID: <399C29DF.D78B117@mail.ptd.net> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:07:27 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun's web site References: <20000816221119.B7276@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Take a look at www.sun.com today. The biggest thing on it is the GNOME > footprint. > ... > (3) It is yet another counterexample of corporates disliking GPL > software. Companies probably prefer BSD (meaning the license) to GPL when they are using other people's code, but when they are opening their own code, the might well prefer GPL. Managment is probably worried that if they use BSD on their code, some other company might make a profit from it, which would get management in trouble with their stockholders for essentially giving away a valuable asset. If they use GPL however, then they are guaranteed that they will be able to use whatever modifications the other company is using to make its profit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message