From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 5 12:33:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C8537B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:33:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9EE43EE1 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:33:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brettglass@ml1.net) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1ADE34FA; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:32:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:32:45 -0500 Received: by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id E155819A01; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:32:45 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Brett Glass" To: "Brett Glass" Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:32:45 -0800 X-Epoch: 1041798765 X-Sasl-enc: jUadBOlEXQJoVf3l8fjG4Q Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , "Mike Jeays" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Terry Lambert" Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. Message-Id: <20030105203245.E155819A01@www.fastmail.fm> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 14:34 PM 1/5/2003, Brett Glass wrote: >It matters in both cases. If "tactical" code is GPLed, you can't >look at it or fix it, and the GPL will extinguish alternatives. You can always implement a clean-room reverse engineered clone, no big deal. >I strongly disagree. The fact that SAMBA is GPLed prevents its use >to develop competitive operating systems that interact well with >Microsoft clients. Thus, SAMBA (perversely) preserves Microsoft's >monopoly on commercial operating systems. There's nothing Microsoft can do, except keep making subtle changes in the CIFS protocol to break compatibility. FIWI, Samba can kiss my ass. If your OS doesn't support NFS natively, it's not worth using. >We recently needed to set up a file repository for a business, and >because SAMBA is GPLed, we used WebDAV. We're very happy with that >solution. And we can look at the code of mod_dav, because it's under >a truly free license. But because you're a professional programmer, like me, you can easily hack a BSD lincensed SMB server in less than 30 minutes. >There's a reason why Dawkins' book was called "The Selfish Gene." Alas, >memes are even more selfish than genes. That book is pure shit, but that's another story. --Brett -- Brett Glass brettglass@ml1.net -- http://fastmail.fm - The professional email service To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message