From owner-freebsd-small Fri Sep 18 17:47:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12686 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12661 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:47:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02275; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809190050.RAA02275@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de cc: Andrzej Bialecki , chad@dcfinc.com, Chris Avis , linux-embedded@waste.org, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 03:20:08 +0200." <19980917032008.E437@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:50:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:13:06AM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Also, my personal opinion is that it's much easier to use FreeBSD in > > commercial situations, because GPL requires you to publish your kernel > > modifications, which is bad. You don't have this problem with FreeBSD (see > > commercial examples of Whistle's InterJet and www.gta.com GnatBox). > > And yet we've choosen Linux for the Cobalt Qube without even seriously > considering any othe variant. > > In most cases the (C) is just a mental problem, not a real one. That depends. You're willing to send me a copy of your GPL-tainted source? You won't mind when I repackage it as the Red Rock and start selling it against you with only a small fraction of your development overheads? I realise that the Qube isn't actually anything remarkable other than in terms of packaging, but for many products the GPL simply isn't viable, and this is why most of them don't use Linux. Most notably, anyone doing anything interesting inside the kernel (eg. GnatBox). Still, pick what works for you, and stick with it. Either way, you often end up so far ahead of where you'd be with a closed embedded platform that the differences between GPL or BSD codebase is lost in the noise. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message