From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 24 13: 9:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F28637B4EC for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:09:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Wm6F-00023g-00; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:19:31 -0700 Message-ID: <3A982563.407C41F2@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:19:31 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , Dennis Jun , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL References: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> <007101c09be9$04ff4f60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010221023316.A49953@mollari.cthul.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:31:07AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > To give you some examples of why this is so stupid, there have been a number > > of security vulnerabilities posted in the last couple of years that > > were repaired in publc BSD code within a day of release of knowledge > > of the vulnerability, yet commercial software vendors (who purported to > > be using Real Live BSD networking code) took weeks to issue patches. > > Well I can tell you, this is a recipie for getting your commercial software > > ejected from any self-respecting ISP. > > Worse; I have the nasty suspicion that a lot of them NEVER get fixed, > and lurk around forever letting people who realise this fact take > advantage of them. So there's a definite advantage to staying close > the BSD community, even though the license doesn't require them to. This fits quite well in Terry's theory of "enlightened self-interest", that drives companies to contribute their changes back to BSDL projects. Staying close to the current releases makes it a lot easier to apply critical fixes as they become available, just as contributing your own fixes (and additions) to the system back allows others to maintain them for you. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message