From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 31 21:52: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37B2237B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 21:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 95812 invoked by uid 100); 1 Jun 2001 04:52:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15127.8051.631453.515533@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:52:03 -0500 To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. In-Reply-To: <3B171E17.348C44E5@mail.ptd.net> References: <3B171E17.348C44E5@mail.ptd.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas M. Sommers types: > It is one thing to incorporate BSD-licensed code in a larger product, > and quite another to try to sell a proprietary version of a free > product. Also note that I referred to commodity hardware; selling > BSD-licensed code in conjuction with proprietary hardware would be much > easier. GPL-licensed code can also be sold in conjunction with proprietary hardware. Witness Tivo. It looks like they're going to get rolled over by MS, though. That has nothing to do with their incorporating GPL'ed code into their business. MS would have the same effect if they had used BSD-licensed code. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message