Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:18:05 -0400 From: Todd Stephens <tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software patents Message-ID: <200309120618.05357.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030912100537.GB89839@ei.bzerk.org> References: <3564C5C1ABA7934FB00B98936C699B05B462BF@exch2000.silogcaen.fr> <20030912065823.GB9763@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030912100537.GB89839@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Friday 12 September 2003 06:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > I think he was talking about putting a protest on the freebsd > website, like some linux distributions have done (eg > http://www.debian.org) This would be free, wouldn't it ? A large part of the reason of why I switched to FreeBSD from Linux was the absence of the patent/license fanaticism you find in the Linux community. If this were a Linux mailing list, 3/4 of the messages would be about the GPL and how MS is evil, while here we have nearly all messages being oriented towards learning how to use and improve FreeBSD. I think the *BSD communities are comfortable enough in their positions that they don't need to direct so much attention to themselves in that way. -- Todd Stephens
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