Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:41:43 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102271739130.5502-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010226211548.00bd65d0@localhost>
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:32 AM 2/26/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >Note that IBM's release of the OS/2 JFS under the GPL throws > >it in the same position (replace "AIX" in the second paragraph > >up from this one with "IRIX"). > > It was tragic that this happened. IBM, of all companies, should > have known better than to stamp the GPL on its code. The GPL makes a lot of business sense: 1. everybody can include your code in products and sell it (just like the BSD license) 2. everybody can change your code and sell the changed version (just like the BSD license) 3. however, improvements to the code will be available to everbody; nobody will be able to take away IBM's market using an improved version of their product -- IBM itself will also have the improved code (different from BSD) Can you really blame them for chosing this option ? [Don't take me wrong, I think the BSD license is great for many things ... but this just doesn't seem to be one of them after looking at the business risk for a few seconds] regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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