Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:51:37 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. Message-ID: <3B170339.C1F6ED0A@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010531150115.00be5ee0@localhost> <20010531124519.SSJB28488.mta10.onebox.com@onebox.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010531150115.00be5ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010531160004.04a02910@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > >GPL software doesn't > >kill technically superior products the way MS does. > > Not so. GCC has killed many technically superior compilers. Had gcc been under a BSD license, it would have been just as deadly. Sure, a company could have made proprietary changes to it, and tried to sell it, but who would buy it? Or, to put it another way, how much could they have charged for it and still sell some? The fate of BSDi shows how difficult it is to sell proprietary versions of BSD-licensed software (at least on commodity hardware). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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