Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:31:22 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <XFMail.010227143122.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102271739130.5502-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
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[ freebsd-fs removed ] On 27-Feb-01 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Brett Glass wrote: >> At 06:32 AM 2/26/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> >Note that IBM's release of the OS/2 JFS under the GPL throws >> >it in the same position (replace "AIX" in the second paragraph >> >up from this one with "IRIX"). >> >> It was tragic that this happened. IBM, of all companies, should >> have known better than to stamp the GPL on its code. > > The GPL makes a lot of business sense: > > 1. everybody can include your code in products and sell > it (just like the BSD license) > > 2. everybody can change your code and sell the changed > version (just like the BSD license) > > 3. however, improvements to the code will be available to > everbody; nobody will be able to take away IBM's market > using an improved version of their product -- IBM itself > will also have the improved code (different from BSD) > > Can you really blame them for chosing this option ? 4. You can't sell any improvements you make (since anyone will be able to just download them, so why would they bother paying for it), so all your programmers become deadweight as they are not earning any income. Solution? Fire all the deadwood (i.e. the non-incoome generating programmers.) Yeah, this is a business model that I as a programmer _really_ want to promote because, hey, food will just magically appear on my table because people will provide it for me out of the goodness of their hearts in appreciation for my code. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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