From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 12 12:53:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f65.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B070537B734 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomhines2@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 45022 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jun 2000 19:53:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20000612195345.45021.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 207.91.82.137 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:53:45 PDT X-Originating-IP: [207.91.82.137] From: "Tom Hines" To: djohnson@acuson.com, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Advocacy... Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:53:45 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >What's the best way to counter the continual FUD that the GPL protects >software better than the BSD license? You can't counter it because it's true. The GPL has an important restriction that BSD doesn't -- it requires all modifications to the code that are redistributed are done so under the same license. That protects the software. I don't know if the GPL is the reason that companies are jumping on the Linux bandwagon or not, but I can see why it might be more attractive to a company offering support services, or to a company that just wants to make a contribution without fear of it getting hijacked, like SGI with XFS (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/license.html). Why do you think that's FUD? On the other hand, I see no reason why FreeBSD can't get a bandwagon going, and with the merger of BSDI and Walnut Creek, I hope that happens. Tom H. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message