From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 20:27:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9ED106566C for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:27:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from feld.me (feld.me [66.170.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435268FC14 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:27:58 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=feld.me; s=blargle; h=In-Reply-To:Message-Id:From:Mime-Version:Cc:Date:References:Subject:To:Content-Type; bh=eMQ6xPk5Z4gmaS+44BDkWaORFj6UC5rJH1d4EXusOuo=; b=WEwtlq7NJj6mG7tEmUtcMPBgpVw7y6YXim0UQ+sM41y0UtKn2/AiuHogDOQAYEIIxHIZjACQF4XawlfW26Ru10AdbQSOPPjfuXx5Ah8UeYzvWmOQFhWAHH/2rWvyNyIy; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mwi1.coffeenet.org) by feld.me with esmtp (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SfGe4-000GlK-Dt; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:27:57 -0500 Received: from feld@feld.me by mwi1.coffeenet.org (Archiveopteryx 3.1.4) with esmtpa id 1339705670-26372-26371/5/75; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:27:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20120614202312.22720@gmx.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:27:49 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 From: Mark Felder Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20120614202312.22720@gmx.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (FreeBSD) X-SA-Score: -1.5 Cc: Dieter BSD Subject: Re: Solving the great resource problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:27:58 -0000 On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:23:11 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote: > > Replacing perfectly good components simply because they > are GPL. The purpose of BSD is supposed to be creating a > great OS, not providing software hoarders with a supply > of free code to abuse. You realize that companies like Juniper have a huge investment in FreeBSD and the less GPL code they have to deal with the better. FYI they give back to us with things like code drops and paid developers.