Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 01:37:58 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Brian Raynes" <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Prevalence of FreeBSD and UNIX among servers Message-ID: <018701c17d25$16c389a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <00ef01c17cda$6b419760$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C0D0426.BEC515D7@dnr.state.ak.us> <010001c17cf4$954228d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C0D21CD.7F89C40A@dnr.state.ak.us> <013b01c17d10$cf9c99e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C0D591E.D33C5BD5@dnr.state.ak.us>
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Brian writes: > Redhat, and for that matter Mandrake, have > contributed loads of time, money and programmer > effort into much of the free software structure > on top of Linux. I'm sure that Microsoft and Adobe burned the midnight oil, too, when they were young and still trying to dig a gold mine. In any case, they aren't helping FreeBSD much, are they? > Redhat and Mandrake put most of their early > work under the GPL. Early work, eh? And now? > Redhat acquired some companies doing proprietary > development, but much of their stuff is still > released under the GPL, as far as I know. Uh-huh. However, once these companies finally make it clear that they are really in it for the money, maybe FreeBSD will become more popular, at least until someone tries to turn it into a cash cow as well. > It just seems that most of it is of little > interest to others. One of the rules is to only give away software that nobody wants to buy. That way you can say you are supporting open source without actually sacrificing any money. > And free software has been around as long as > software has ... But how much free software from the past is still available--and free--today? > Not everyone codes for any reason other than to > fill their own needs, after that, they may not > care if they make a dime off of it and give it > away to whomever might find that they have similar > needs. I think that principle will keep free > software alive for a long time. I hope so. It's nice to not have to work for a living, that's for sure, but it isn't a common luxury. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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