Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:07:32 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community Message-ID: <42af13c0754be09eaa392751df755d02@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4786058F.8080101@gmail.com> References: <4786058F.8080101@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:46:23 -0500, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > I decided to elaborate slightly on the previous reply.... > > One thing that FOSS (BSD or GPL) has historical had issues doing > cleanly is seperating free software from free beer. The first being > a very important goal and the second a unfair side effect of thinking > that open source by definition means free use of the products. Yes > the source should be avaible to everyone but as far I can tell that > does not automatically and should not translate into not having some > responibility to the community that created the project in the first > place.... my approach (along with 3 other small software vendors) is > to have a requirement to contribute back to the community in some form > (in work or help support those doing the work), namely it is free > software but not free beer. > Please stop this. FreeBSD is BSD licenced and if you want to start another holy war about wether this is good or bad, do it on freebsd-chat. Or even better, stop here, right now. This really has nothing to do with the thread itself and with this mailing list in special. Thanks. ./Marian
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