Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:11:39 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: dwilde1@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Subject: Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD Message-ID: <861vlr3pno.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <eefa2c8b0909281016vca9f9fu5f44cedd098b6304@mail.gmail.com> (Don Wilde's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:16:05 -0500") References: <eefa2c8b0909280908n4a8a8adch4a5400d555db356a@mail.gmail.com> <200909281709.n8SH8xsG070888@fire.js.berklix.net> <eefa2c8b0909281016vca9f9fu5f44cedd098b6304@mail.gmail.com>
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Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> writes: > What is incorrect, Julian? Pretty much everything about the lawsuit. http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/USLsettlement.pdf I found the phrase "everything developed before 1970" particularly amusing, as it translates to approximately zero, plus or minus zero. Oh, and pretty much everything else as well. The practice of sharing source code without compensation (and the term "copyleft") can be traced to a hobbyist magazine that later developed into Dr Dobb's, and predates 3BSD (1BSD and 2BSD were only add-ons, not OS distributions) by about five years. The first explicit discussion of free software as such was in an article published in the July 1976 issue of SIGPLAN in reaction to Bill Gate's (in)famous "open letter". The first organized F/OSS movement was, like it or not, the GNU Project started by Richard Stallman in 1983. At that time, BSD was distributed only to institutions that already held an AT&T source code license. The network stack was "open sourced" in the late eighties, the rest of the system in the early-to-mid nineties. > He was drinking beer by the pitcher, so I'm sure he was more > forthcoming than usual. I neither know nor care whether that statement is true, but it's not a particularly nice thing to say about anyone. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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