Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 19:27:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: rab@pike.cdrom.com, brett@lariat.org, Dave@Yost.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) Message-ID: <199903011927.MAA15288@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <36DA4E86.E7CF8A2A@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Mar 1, 99 05:23:34 pm
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> > >Unencumbered by the GPL. You can really USE the code! > > > > Okay. But this is a controversial issue. > > Controversial to whom? It is just a matter of your intended > audience, of how you sell this. "In contrast to the GPL license used > by Linux, FreeBSD gives preference to the BSD license, meaning that > business enterprises can use the source code as it sees fit with no > strings attached, besides the copyright notice." To make this argument, you need to make the semantic distinction between "use" and "utilize". You are free to utilize Linux, but not use Linux source code to prepare proprietary derivative works. > Target people who are new to this, attracted by > the Linux histeria. Business. SOHO. People who want start an > Internet enterprise. Explain to them how they can use the BSD > license to their advantage, contrasting this to GPL. It may not be politically correct, but after seeing the "persiankitty" link on the FreeBSD user's page, thinking that the page had been hacked by a spammer, being corrected by Jordan, and then hearing the story behind it, it's a good marketing tool. Here's a second-hand summary from a second-hand summary of a Scout Report (a searchable archive is located at http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ ): A woman, new to the internet, decided to see how many hits she could generate for her site. She was going for a record. Her methodology wasn't to put up a sex site (most of the previous record holders were sex sites). Instead, she put up an index of sex sites. Within 36 hours, her ISP had shut her down, because her site was saturating his T1. So she moved to another ISP, one with multiple T1's, and put the site back up. Within 24 hours, that ISP shut her down. Now her server is colocated, with multiple high speed connections. www.persiankitty.com is a FreeBSD machine. The woman makes well in excess of US$1 million per year: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/inwk/0406/inwk0027.html 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-advocacy" in the body of the message
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