Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:03:14 -0700 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Evan Leibovitch on BSD Message-ID: <p0510031cb74c1713ae96@[192.168.168.205]> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost>
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At 12:34 PM -0600 6/12/01, Brett Glass wrote: >The article at > >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2772296,00.html > >subtly suggests that there must be something wrong with BSD's philosophy >or licensing because GPLed software (in particular, Linux, KDE, etc.) is >the focus of more and more prominent startups. (Needless to say, as someone >who has a strong vested interest in Linux, he's not exactly unbiased.) It's >probably worth setting him straight in in the TalkBack. Actually, I think he raises an interesting point. IBM surely knows about BSD; why, then, are they spending $2B or so on Linux. Part of the issue could be that Linux has mindshare, but I'm not sure that's the whole of it. I wonder, in particular, whether IBM is concerned that going with the university-style license might allow M$ to "embrace and extend" their work. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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