Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:12:36 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) Message-ID: <199902091612.LAA10722@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199902081927.LAA20925@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Feb 8, 99 11:27:56 am"
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Sean Eric Fagan said: > > Oh, and I suggest all of you whiners -- Brett the Idiot in particular -- take > a look at BSDi's commercial success vs. Caldera's or Red Hat's commercial > success. BSDi took the so-called "free" software, and made it proprietary, > and is languishing. And yet Caldera and Red Hat, which are using the > apparantly anti-commercial GPL'd code, and are flourishing. > You are misreading the difference, and it is obvious: free source availability. BSDI isn't cheap anymore. GPL is not the difference, other than companies like red-hat acting like leaches from the bright eyed and bushy tailed young developers who don't have the sense that they'll have to earn livings later in their lives. CDROM distributors have pretty much a free ride, and don't fund development. Walnut Creek is doing some good by funding a real-free development, and one has to applaud their support. > > Idiots. > Yep, those fools who are doing the work for free, without ever the chance of being able to leverage their own genius, given the viral effects from bugfixes from the net. The vast majority of people out there aren't very smart, and GPL demonstrates that. This kind of reminds me of young people who have realized the benefits of the results of their puberty. They have lots of fun playing a risky and losing game -- and it takes them a few years to realize how stupid they have been. When the reality of understanding how the world works sets in, then they'll quit giving it away for free. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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