Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:39:20 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: GrimJow Espada <grimjow.espada@gmail.com>, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi Message-ID: <49A17FB8.1000903@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090222164905.K65506@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <9ef7e7380902220154t74657d52uc9497c77672b79f8@mail.gmail.com> <9a52b1190902220711u65e38320t97ca56547bef246d@mail.gmail.com> <20090222164905.K65506@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking
>> companies) continue to ""not contribute"" back the
>=20
> this will affect their sales - FreeBSD user will simply buy network car=
d=20
> from another manufacturer.
I think the keywords here are more 'Juniper' and 'Cisco' (both of whom ha=
ve
products either based on FreeBSD or incorporating quantities of FreeBSD
code, and neither of whom are in the business of making network cards tha=
t
I know of) rather than 'Intel' and 'Broadcom' (not that Intel has anythin=
g
to be ashamed of with regard to their support of their NICs under *BSD. I=
f
anything they are the model that we would encourage other companies to
emulate).
In any case, why should companies be constrained to open their code as
the only way of giving back to an opensource community? I agree
that it would be desirable, but commercial realities are such that it's n=
ot
going to happen any time soon. Companies do have other routes to 'give b=
ack'
-- donations of money or equipment, sponsoring development projects or
conferences, providing day-time employment for FreeBSD developers, even j=
ust
publicly acknowledging that they use FreeBSD technology. None of which i=
s
required by the terms of the license, but frequently seems to happen anyh=
ow.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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