Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:13:29 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org, freelist@webweaver.net, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <199805041913.OAA00519@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <354E1196.3AEA02AC@ibm.net> from Don Wilde at "May 4, 98 12:05:58 pm"
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> John S. Dyson wrote: > > > I suggest that synergy with industry is not only *not* destructive > > to free software, but actually helps fund it. I believe that > > free software can be produced by commercial developers, who often > > tend to be very practiced and skillful. By taking profit motive > > away by making enhancements necessarily encumbered, this takes > > a degree of freedom away from those who have to feed their families, > > as opposed to being fed by their families. > > Anybody running X? Mesa? BSD Itself? Of course we need professionals to > freely contribute. The fact that their company can also use the > 'product' is why many are allowed to do so. I hope some of the energy > you are putting into NCI will come back to us. I know it will! > FWIW, very little of what I do for NCI is being restricted. Sometimes it is, but not much. It seems that Whistle is also freely contributing work back. IMO, the issue of companies "hoarding" all of the good software is a canard. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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