From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 13: 4:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD04437B405 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59352C430; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21560; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:04:36 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBEL3V052576; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Hiten Pandya Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) References: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 14 Dec 2001 13:03:31 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Hiten Pandya writes: > In Brief. The point is, forgive my bluntness, but > porting JFS to FreeBSD, might give companies with > Terabytes of information on these file system to > switch to FreeBSD for mission-critical purposes, > even when they know that JFS is under the influence > of the GPL License. Good point, but there are few EXTRA such companies that could and would just because they prefer JFS to Softupdates (or super-softupdates), and the question remains: is it worth it? > (no offense), but if these kind of things are to be > taken religiously (GPL vs. BSD License), than it > would render this whole thread completely illogical, > which i have always tried to prevent. Religious ideas have very practical impacts which you would ignore at your peril. (Need I make references?) Don't fail to consider what a prior message said: If you develop a GPL add-on which, because of the license incompatibility problems, is awkward for people to install (eg, can't be configured at install-time or requires post-install messing with partitions), then you are likely to find that the hard work of yourself and others has only moderate pay-off. Your talents might be better directed elsewhere. (Better for others, that is. You may prefer to scratch your own itch, and you can ingore complaints about that.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message