Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:08:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mikel King <mikel@ocsinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <3B4385D2.7D0166A3@mindspring.com> References: <NFBBJICOAOJNJHMCFMLMKEAACAAA.mikel@ocsinternet.com>
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Mikel King wrote: > > I've been reading this perticlar thread for a while now, > and have acurious observations. > > I've been doing this for quite sometime now, and the > majority of clients that I deal with could give a rat's ass > about licensing, or operating systems for that mater. All > they care about is if they are able to work on their data, > in some sort of familiar application. I'm pretty sure they care about price and delivery dates. The BSD license allows a commerical company to "stand on the shoulders of giants", which means they can use the code to prepare a derivate work in less time, and therefore also at a lower price point, than they would otherwise be able to do. The GPL allows a commercial company to look at the code, and thus perhaps use it as a reference implementation to let them reimplement the code (probably not, though, since it won't push a standard unless everyone reimplements it in commercial products), but not to touch the code, due to their very reason for being. If I had to categorize the GPL being applied to things that rightly belong in the public domain, like NSA and DARPA funded research, I'd have to say "If I haven't seen as far, it's because I've been standing on the chests of prone midgets". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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