Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:58:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, stesin@gu.net, ulf@Lamb.net, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, serious@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960925214936.3989B-100000@scooter.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199609252002.NAA06541@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > [SNIP] > Yet Linux, SCO, Solaris, and UnixWare all have license manager > software, and you guys insisting on ethnic purity inre: the > network interface is succeeding in doing nothing other than making > FreeBSD a less attractive commercial platform. > > Unless that's your ultimate goal, it seems pretty stupid to put > forth arguments against instead of arguments for. I agree, and though I'm new to the FreeBSD / Unix world, it's impossible as a young programmer not to be scared by Microsoft's bid to rule the networking world and eliminate Unix -- and they will succceed unless viable *commercial* alternatives exist. I love my FreeBSD box more than any other OS I've ever used, and I'd love nothing more than to be able to Work on FreeBSD projects instead of NT. But right now FreeBSD doesn't pay, cause it's not accepted in the commercial world, and that's where the jobs and money comes from. Any move to make FreeBSD more mainstream in the commercial world I support - it's the best OS, and it should be the OS I program on. Sure, I hate license managers too, but they are a part of the real world and I think the whole "good enough" policy Terry mentioned makes perfect sense. We might not be able to create a "perfect" LM on a PC, but I just want anything that works reasonably well. Anything to enable me to program on FreeBSD and get paid at the same time :-) cya, -Mark ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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