Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:03:14 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Perens Replies (was Ivan Leybovich) Message-ID: <310748704.992448194@box014.labs.pitt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010613185817.93575.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com>
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--On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:58 AM -0700 Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> wrote:r > Name: Bruce Perens ... > Occupation: Strategist for HP, and Open Source Evangelist > Oh so HP will GPL their calculator and printer firmware?? They must be pretty screwed up to hire an "evangelist". > BSD licensing is a failing business plan for the developer. It's only a > good business plan for someone who wants to take that developer's work > without paying for it. In contrast, HP is currently negotiating a > commercial license with a GPL developer. Since the GPL doesn't allow > integration of his work into the proprietary (non-Linux) product where > we needed it, we had to go to him and negotiate another license. If > he'd used the BSD license, we would not have needed to do that. > Seems like he just admitted that the GPL is not free software after all !!! Free as in FreeBSD I mean. > By the way, I did ask Brian Behlendorf, but he was on vacation and > could not respond in time. He said later that he would have signed. > Of course...OK I'll fall, whom is Brian Behlendorf??? Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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