From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 4 14: 8:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B4A37B408 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.142.206.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.142.206]) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02161; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4385D2.7D0166A3@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:08:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikel King Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikel King wrote: > > I've been reading this perticlar thread for a while now, > and have acurious observations. > > I've been doing this for quite sometime now, and the > majority of clients that I deal with could give a rat's ass > about licensing, or operating systems for that mater. All > they care about is if they are able to work on their data, > in some sort of familiar application. I'm pretty sure they care about price and delivery dates. The BSD license allows a commerical company to "stand on the shoulders of giants", which means they can use the code to prepare a derivate work in less time, and therefore also at a lower price point, than they would otherwise be able to do. The GPL allows a commercial company to look at the code, and thus perhaps use it as a reference implementation to let them reimplement the code (probably not, though, since it won't push a standard unless everyone reimplements it in commercial products), but not to touch the code, due to their very reason for being. If I had to categorize the GPL being applied to things that rightly belong in the public domain, like NSA and DARPA funded research, I'd have to say "If I haven't seen as far, it's because I've been standing on the chests of prone midgets". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message