From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jun 19 15: 3:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8A837B6BA for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA56471; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:03:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:03:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Response to Fatal Flaw in BSD (part 2) In-Reply-To: <200006192016.QAA23911@rac4.wam.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, James Howard wrote: > So here is the revised version, please send me anything you think > needs changing. > * Second, the Kerberos code could have been released under the GPL. > If this had happened, the Microsoft would have surely refused to then > Why did Microsoft choose not to use existing code? I cannot say. The > license would have allowed them completely use the existing code without license allows them to use the existing code as is without > However, despite legal availability of code, it was not used and this the code, > So we are now left with Leibovitch's articlewhich is clearly designed article which > of Kerberos is an ``example of real harm to the frees software free software > which is based on a BSD license. The X Windows System's widespread > availability and interoperability is also based on it's liberal its Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message