Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 19:24:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980503190508.572A-100000@james.hwcn.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980503144012.freelist@webweaver.net>
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[X-post to -advocacy removed] On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nicole wrote: > Their agument was that the license would allow someone (like > M$) to take Freebsd and add some propritary stuff to it (like > Front page extensions, active X etc) and sell it without having > to give anything back to the FreeBSD group or even s > tate that it was FreeBSD. I have heard one good argument against the GPL. It is that someone (like M$) can't add innovations (like a good GUI, an embeded toaster product, or daring high-investment product like XiG's server) without being threatened to lose their investment when someone else remarkets the product without contributing to the capital costs. There is no simple "this one is better" answer. I suspect time will give some good hints. A "this one is better" argument is best left for historians. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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