On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:45:03PM -0500, Steve Price wrote: > On 27 Apr 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > > # Elie Rosenblum <fnord@jurai.net> writes: > # > # > And thus spake John Goerzen, on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:33:38AM -0500: > # > > The same as for using FreeBSD itself: it's got a nasty BSD license. > # > > # > Er, the BSD license is still DFSG free, last I checked. And many of > # > the BSD zealots have a somewhat good argument that the BSD license > # > is less restrictive and more open than GPL. > # > # No, that argument holds no water. GPL preserves greater net freedom. > # BSD gives people the freedom to take freedom away. I don't like that, > # and it results in less net freedom. Witness BSDI, SunOS, etc, etc. > > And look what that got them. BSDI is not floushering like they > had hoped. They are finally coming to realize that many thousands > of programmers can do a better job at doing something they choose > to do than a much smaller number (inside BSDI) that are doing > things they might not really have a passion for. This is the same > reason that Linux is more featureful than Win* nowadays. To us it is > a passion and to many commercial software developers it is more like > a job. Who do you think will turn out better code, someone that does > it because they choose to, or someone that does it only because they > need the money? I'm actually interested in people talking about a Debian BSD port.. could the rest of you take this BSD vs GPL "discussion" to another subject tread? -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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