Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:25:42 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org, grog@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <a0510101cb842c0107cf4@[10.0.1.22]> In-Reply-To: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 11:34 AM -0800 on 2001/12/14, Hiten Pandya wrote: > For argument's sake; Even though FreeBSD is better > than > AIX (much better), and also free, why do corporates > and > goverment agencies tend to choose IBM and Sun based > products more than FreeBSD. Okay, so go ask IBM to do a complete open-source version of AIX. You'd have about as much success doing that as asking them to release the JFS code under any other kind of license. > (no offense), but if these kind of things are to be > taken religiously (GPL vs. BSD License), than it > would render this whole thread completely illogical, > which i have always tried to prevent. Well, the problem is that you cannot escape the license. Feel free to do whatever you want in terms of something that is not enabled by default. However, keep in mind that if something isn't enabled by default, that will mean that something like 99% of the users will never make use of the software in question -- all "ports" are pretty much in the same boat. Of course, since your "port" will compete with existing software that is included by default (e.g., softupdates) and may or may not conflict with other software that is included by default (dirprefs & dirhash), this would reduce your potential customer base by a few more orders of magnitude. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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