From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 18 22:51:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB54337B422 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26844 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2000 05:51:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 19 Aug 2000 05:51:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 16491 invoked by uid 211); 19 Aug 2000 05:51:35 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:21:35 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Thomas M. Sommers" , Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <20000819112135.A16479@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , "Thomas M. Sommers" , Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <399CDA16.E14E80C9@mail.ptd.net> <200008190131.SAA00239@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008190131.SAA00239@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:31:48AM +0000 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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