Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:21:35 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <20000819112135.A16479@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <200008190131.SAA00239@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:31:48AM %2B0000 References: <399CDA16.E14E80C9@mail.ptd.net> <200008190131.SAA00239@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Aug 19, 2000 at 01:31:48: > > If they are giving away their source, they probably aren't planning on > > making much of a profit from it any more. If they use the GPL, they can > > be pretty sure that no one else will make one, either. > > If I have a beer, and I'm not going to drink it, if I piss in it, > I can be pretty sure no one will drink it, either. A totally ridiculous and irrelevant analogy, and exactly what I meant with my licensing wars comment earlier. A more hardline commercial developer may argue that BSD-licensing code is "pissing in it" because people will always prefer to use that instead of a commercial equivalent. (eg, SSH versus OpenSSH -- it's fairly clear that it was the existence of OpenSSH which forced the SSH people to change their licensing policy a few days ago.) Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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