Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:08:07 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. Message-ID: <20010601140807.D73348@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3B170339.C1F6ED0A@mail.ptd.net>; from tms2@mail.ptd.net on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:51:37PM -0400 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010531150115.00be5ee0@localhost> <20010531124519.SSJB28488.mta10.onebox.com@onebox.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010531150115.00be5ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010531160004.04a02910@localhost> <3B170339.C1F6ED0A@mail.ptd.net>
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Thomas M. Sommers said on May 31, 2001 at 22:51:37: > Had gcc been under a BSD license, it would have been just as deadly. > Sure, a company could have made proprietary changes to it, and tried to > sell it, but who would buy it? Or, to put it another way, how much > could they have charged for it and still sell some? The fate of BSDi > shows how difficult it is to sell proprietary versions of BSD-licensed > software (at least on commodity hardware). For that matter, consider SSH's problems with OpenSSH. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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