Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:54:33 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: freelist@webweaver.net, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <199805032354.SAA00679@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980503190508.572A-100000@james.hwcn.org> from Tim Vanderhoek at "May 3, 98 07:24:54 pm"
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Tim Vanderhoek said: > [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. > 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. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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