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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:13:23 -0600
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: "BSD bashing" is rampant
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I just posted a message on InfoWorld Electric's forums
praising FreeBSD and critiquing the GPL. Immediately,
the following message was posted. (It's not uncommon
to see similar misinformation spread whenever FreeBSD
is mentioned in an online forum.)

Posted by: bryan
      Date posted: Tue Apr 21 9:47:20 PDT 1998 

      I know what the GPL says. That doesn't keep it from being the best
license. FreeBSD has broken up. Linux has been together for eight years.
Linux has 6 million installations; *BSD, less than a million. The BSD
license gives the ability to improve and have a monopoly on the
improvements, but this doesn't end up helping. It truly lets a thousand
strains flourish. GPL doesn't; GPL subjects the code to ruthless darwinian
survival of the best solution. 

      Either way, only MS truly benefits from the changes made by other
companies to fix MS's cruft and add ridiculously basic features. The GPL is
better than that, at least. And it works. There is plenty of commercial
interaction with Linux, in every realm.

I pointed out that FreeBSD has by no means "broken up," that millions 
of CDs have shipped, and that that there are more network installs than 
of Linux because it's easier to do. If you'd care to respond to this 
particular flame, it's at

http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?52270

--Brett Glass


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