From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 15:23:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10520 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10462; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16256; Sun, 3 May 1998 17:23:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id RAA26258; Sun, 3 May 1998 17:22:39 -0500 Message-ID: <19980503172238.09469@right.PCS> Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 17:22:38 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Nicole Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley References: <199805030318.VAA15026@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Nicole on May 05, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On May 05, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0700, Nicole wrote: > > I have heard one good argument against the FreeBSD liscense altho I > don't know how true it is.. > > Their agument was that the license would allow someone (like M$) to > take Freebsd and add some propritary stuff to it (like Front page > extensions, active X etc) and sell it without having to give anything > back to the FreeBSD group or even state that it was FreeBSD. > > Any comments? That's not a bug, it's a feature. :-) If M$ wants to do exactly that, more power to them. In fact, I feel that that is one of best things about the BSD license; anyone can take it, add their features, and resell it. Some companies even do exactly what you are exactly what you are describing. So what's wrong with that? Simple economics state that people have to make money in order to make a living. Their competitors can also do the same thing. The developers of FreeBSD get satisfaction in knowing that their work is valuable to others, and has been used to improve the overall state of the art in the industry. Actually, it would be nice if M$ would do that, perhaps it would greatly reduce the bugcount in their software and make it more useable. :-) -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message