From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 11:42:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C2437B41A; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:42:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA18292; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:40:55 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011214123703.02ad7290@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:40:50 -0700 To: Hiten Pandya , Brad Knowles From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:34 PM 12/14/2001, Hiten Pandya wrote: >For me, any software that comes under >agreeable licensing, i.e. GPL and BSD License, MIT >License etc. and also has good quality, e.g. GCC, >binutils, gnuplot and also other BSD License software >is good enough for me or for any other company i would >say. The GPL is not "agreeable." It is anti-business and anti-programmer and should not be tolerated in any way, shape, or form in a BSD source tree. It would be far better to build on softupdates, which is an exceptionally powerful technology that's unique to BSD. Even if journaling is desired, a technology based on softupdates would minimize data loss and reduce the degree to which the state of the file system had to be rolled back after a crash. In short, perhaps the next step should be "firmupdates." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message