From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 07:45:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA27348 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 07:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA27152 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 07:43:45 -0800 (PST) (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 JAA27029; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:43:36 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id JAA17832; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:43:05 -0600 Message-ID: <19971027094304.25152@right.PCS> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:43:04 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: John Kelly Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will we make freebsd a popular OS? References: <3456b1a5.2139218@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <3456b1a5.2139218@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>; from John Kelly on Oct 10, 1997 at 03:50:15PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Oct 10, 1997 at 03:50:15PM +0000, John Kelly wrote: > I wonder why B. Gates hasn't already taken the FreeBSD source, > packaged it up with some clever install routines, and started calling > it MS-BSD and selling it! After all, with the UCB copyright, he would > not be required to distribute source code, as he would have to with > Linux and the GPL. That's a pretty scary thought. Actually, I wish they would. In my view, that's one of the advantages of the BSD license; I _want_ companies to pick up the code, turn around and re-sell it. Can you just imagine the increase in overall quality and stability of M$ products if it had a BSD codebase? :-) -- Jonathan