Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:05:16 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My opinion about freebsd (fwd) Message-ID: <33C918DC.313C@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <199707130633.CAA20588@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Joel N. Weber II wrote: > ... > I'm not sure I consider all the repetitive OS development productive, > but I'd certainly rather see the same SCSI driver written seprately > by the BSD and GPL communities rather than have the government mandating > that everyone use VMS and nothing else. > That's just one of the reasons to use FreeBSD and not Linux. Some things (like the kernel) are better with a Berkeley-like license, and some things (some apps.) are better with GPL. In the free world, if you spend years developing your high quality tool, and lots of persons will benefit from it, it's only fair that you receive a part of that benefit. The existance of a GNU license only forces a good quality in the final products: if you find a free utility that does all you need you will not buy the commercial version. When someone buys a M$ OS, he is buying the usability which started this thread. In this sense SCO and the other UNIX resellers seem to have accepted they can't beat win-95, their competidor is NT. In this sense I think it is dishonest to say to the end user that FreeBSD will replace his win-95 box (although it did for some of us) as it is dishonest to say that win-NT is more usable than all unices (although it's true for some). Pedro.
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