From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 12:21:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D51152A8 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10249; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:28:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:28:34 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Terry Lambert Cc: brett@lariat.org, spork@super-g.com, howardjp@wam.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! In-Reply-To: <199905192350.QAA12086@usr04.primenet.com> 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 That's an irrelevant argument. None of the companies you listed may be releasin software under the GPL, but I wouldn't expect commercial software to be released under the GPL. I'm saying that RedHat and Linux aren't any threat to commercial software. I don't think any of their actions are going to "poison the apple". --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Wed, 19 May 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I don't see why. Linux and FreeBSD are both nice platforms to base > > commercial software on. That's my entire business, and I haven't had > > any problems... > > > I don't know of one major company with any intellectual property to > speak of which has bitten the GPL'ed software apple. > > The Linux putatively shipping on some large companies computer lines > is not "biting the apple". They do not put any intellectual property > at risk unless they engage in "value add" and/or maintenance/support. > > With the exception of Cobalt, which is a systems integrator more > than a software company, and which has the MIPS processor and the > "buy one box before you ask" barrier to supplicants demanding > source code, I can't name one vendor that's showing up on any > important radar anywhere. > > On the *BSD side, I can name Whistle, Freegate, Encanto, Vixie > Enterprises, NCI (Oracle), Juniper, Internet Devices, Firepower > systems, and many others. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message