From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 2 16:26:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AB314D0C for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:26:27 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Phil Regnauld" , "Brett Glass" Cc: , Subject: RE: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:26:26 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bef59a$93fd1cc0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <19990903011448.47118@ns.int.ftf.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Responding with 2-4 word dumb questions just forces a pointless rehash of what everybody already knows. > Brett Glass writes: > > > While they accuse vendors of proprietary > > software of "hoarding" code, they themselves hoard code under the > > aegis of the GPL, > > How so ? All the GPLed code is extremely hard to use in commercial products. As a result, commercial developers wind up reinventing the wheel and producing lower quality products at higher prices. The benefits nobody. > > preventing its practical commercial use. > > Define "practical commercial use". Including in a commercial product, increasing its quality and decreasing its cost. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message