Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 15:42:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: opsys@mail.webspan.net (Open Systems Networking) Cc: freelist@webweaver.net, brett@lariat.org, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <199805032242.PAA13660@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980503181514.24861A-100000@orion.webspan.net> from Open Systems Networking at "May 3, 98 06:23:47 pm"
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Open Systems Networking wrote: > he is doing so with the knowledge it is TOTALLY FREE. NO STRINGS ATTACHED. > Once he writes something for freebsd its in the interest that SOMEONE > finds his code good enough to use. They don't do this for profit, greed, > or to put strings on the code they write. Which is why the BSD license is > free 100% and GPL is not free, and its anti-commercial. GPL is like that > oasis in the desert you can see the water and it's almost in reach but > right as you reach it it appears 20 yards farther out. Thats how GPL > works, they hand you the code, you think your free to use it but then, > oooohh gotta give what you write with it back, sorry wish it could be free > but we cannot allow you to take our hard work and use it freely without > giving something back. So GPL is NOT free. Free 100% is to allow the users > of the code to do whatever it is they wish with it with > NO/ZIP/ZERO/NONE/NADA strings attached. GPL is only free as long as you > dont use it, if you use it your FORCED into giving what youw rite with it > back. That is not free. That is the opposite of free. > GPL is a license. but it is NOT FREE. It has many uses but it is not free. > It is dilusional to think so. this is incorrect. there are strings attached. in short, you must credit the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors in source and in binary. the binary must reproduce the copyright, its list of conidtions and its disclaimer. all ads must proclaim that the product has berkeley source in it. i believe that these strings may be why microsoft produces their own ****ty tcp/ip .....they prefer their own "material" to admitting they use a better product. and its "Unix" no less ;) jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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