Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:29:33 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL Message-ID: <20010225162933.T656@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <3A982563.407C41F2@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:19:31PM -0700 References: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> <007101c09be9$04ff4f60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010221023316.A49953@mollari.cthul.hu> <3A982563.407C41F2@softweyr.com>
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On 2001-02-24 14:19 -0700, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote: > > This fits quite well in Terry's theory of "enlightened self-interest", that > drives companies to contribute their changes back to BSDL projects. Staying > close to the current releases makes it a lot easier to apply critical fixes > as they become available, just as contributing your own fixes (and additions) > to the system back allows others to maintain them for you. Well, it's not exactly Terry's theory. I first remember reading about the Principle of Enlightened Self-Interest in a Doc Smith novel, probably "Subspace Explorers". Followups to chat, please. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm mailto:gsutter@zer0.org for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ be warm for the rest of his life. hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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