From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 17 23:32:49 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 6FBAC37B43F for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11221 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2000 06:32:46 -0000 Received: from du06.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.6) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 18 Aug 2000 06:32:46 -0000 Message-ID: <399CB2D3.BE634D97@mail.ptd.net> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:51:47 -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: Narvi Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Narvi wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Huh! > > Gnome is not Sun's code, and Sun is not opening it up. I didn't mean that it was; I was making a general comment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message