Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:44:23 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New CODA release Message-ID: <199902080144.RAA41166@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:29:16 EST." <36BE3DEC.433E8A2E@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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Hi Pedro, Save your typing for an audience which has the minimal intelligence level of at least walking and chewing gum at the same time 8) Cheers, Amancio > Gregory Sutter wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:00:53PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > > > > > > > Whiner. You don't like it, go write your own. > > > > > > Ohh.. so everyone that doesn't like GPL is a whiner nowadays...The nice > > > > No, the guy that was whining was a whiner. The coders of Coda made up > > their minds to go with the GPL. The whining guy didn't try to > > influence their decision, didn't present new reasons why Coda shouldn't > > be GPLed, but was just bitching and moaning about it. That's fine, but > > then if Sean wants to call him a whiner, he won't be far off. > > > OK, I didn't bitch and moan so I still don't classify :-)...There was a > short discussion about it in the coda-announce list, the reason seemed > pretty stupid to me: > > "- Coda is now GPL'd - primarily because we want to indicate that we are > really an OSS project." > > Theo d'Raadt, speaking for OpenBSD _only_ responded: > > > > good move -- you've just alienated all the other operating systems and > > ensured that none of them will ever fully integrate coda into the > > default install. i bet you'll be seeing freebsd and netbsd deleting > > coda in the next couple of days, since they have rules against > > dropping GPL code into their kernel tree. > > > > We'll stick with ARLA. It's really _free_ software. > > > > Since you wanna hear reasons why it isn't a good idea: > > -Commercial distributions don't like to be forced to carry sources for > parts of their OS. That's of course part of the success of X and many > BSD tools. I haven't heard of any commercial UNIX bundling gcc yet.. > > - From an economical point of view, the GPL has a negative effect over > capitalism, and will eventually have some effect on employment (I'm not > kidding, I'll have to write a dissertation about this, but I haven't > found the time). The BSD license doesn't have this effect. > > Pedro. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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