From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 17:48:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06422 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 17:48:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06412; Sun, 3 May 1998 17:48:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA22004; Sun, 3 May 1998 20:43:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:43:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Reply-To: Tim Vanderhoek To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freelist@webweaver.net, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley In-Reply-To: <199805032354.SAA00679@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 3 May 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > I suggest that synergy with industry is not only *not* destructive > to free software, but actually helps fund it. I believe that Synergy is helpful, yes. (In the real world, that is --- just like Stallman, I can propose worlds where it is not --- they don't mean anything!). My concern is that the computer industry may be inherently susceptible to the development of monopolies. A monopoly is not conduscive to synergy. It seems obvious that closed software world is badly susceptible to monopolies. The question, in my mind, is whether the open software world is susceptible to monopolies. I don't believe this is something that will be known for another 20 years, at the minimum. Most -list readers (including me) agree the BSD license can bring-about an open software world much more quickly and easily, but if we assume open software is destined to win regardless of license, then it is this future 20 years (minimum) that we are concerned with in choosing a license. History judges futurists harshly, and 20 years makes my head spin. Heck, that's probably older than most of the -list participants here... ;-) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message