From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 13 8:31: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030ED14F15 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 08:30:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA04222; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:30:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199905131530.LAA04222@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:25:21 -0400 To: Jamie Bowden , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: Re: BSD, GPL, the world today. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:43 AM 5/13/99 -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: > >I've been doing a little thinking on the whole Proprietary vs. GPL vs. BSD >licensing issue. Stallman's wrong, Brett's wrong, Gates iswrong, hell >everyobody's wrong. > >Now that I have your attention, let me continue. The biggest problem I >see with software today, as an admin (read, bridge between users and >vendors), is the refusal of vedors to take responsibilty for their >products. Microsoft seems to be the biggest practitioner of this, but >they didn't start it. Actually, you are wrong. All software has bugs, therefore it is unreasonable for consumers to assume that software that they buy has no bugs. Bugs are part of the deal. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message