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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:07:52 -0800
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD licence vs GPL
Message-ID:  <3A955578.CB84F89C@acuson.com>
References:  <004601c09cab$7750d260$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> > What if someone came along and created a closed source derivative of my
> > code and made a million bucks off of it? I would be pissed. But it
> 
> Why?  They undoubtedly would be first in line wanting to hire you - who
> better to work on the source for them than the one who wrote it! :-)

Well then! That would evaporate my pissiness in short order!

The point I was trying to make is that 99% of life is people doing what
you don't want them to do. At some point you have to stop trying to mold
the world into your own image and start learning to live with it.

David

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