Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:31:14 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Glen Overby <overby@rrnet.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009291925410.23266-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <200009291625.LAA41951@zhadum.americas.sgi.com>
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Glen Overby wrote: > tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) flamed: > > I have talked to SGI's chief scientist about the license, > > SGI is afraid of competitors (Sun, HP, etc) porting XFS to their own > proprietary OS. In a sick sort of way, the GPL protects SGI from > that. You won't see a non-GPL XFS coming from SGI. Sorry. There is a nice license comparison from the point of view of game theory on the following URL. This might explain the reason behind licensing decisions being made by some businesses. http://www2.fastdial.net/~drysdam/essays/GPL-as-strategy.html > BTW, thanks for sending out this flame. It reminded me why I > stopped trying to do contribute to FreeBSD years ago. I wonder how much of the cultural difference between BSD and Linux is due to licensing ... (and no, personally I don't care about the particular license; _my_ gains are in the fact that I can program on stuff I think is cool and get paid for it .. and that I can freely exchange my ideas with others) regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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