Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:32:04 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Dennis Koegel" <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de>, "Philipp Huber" <uebs@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: GPL vs BSD Licence Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEIKEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041025082051.GB16445@neveragain.de>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dennis Koegel > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 1:21 AM > To: Philipp Huber > > Because Juniper, for example, are perfectly free to decide against > making their changes to the (in this case) FreeBSD code available > anyone at all. You do realize, don't you, that the interesting part of a Juniper is the microcode in their DSP routing engine. FreeBSD is only used to control the routing engine in a Juniper router, it isn't used AS the routing engine. I really doubt that anything Juniper has done to FreeBSD would be of much interest to anyone other than Cisco Systems, and Cisco would only be interested in it as a way of finding out weaknesses in Juniper routers that they could market against. Actually a more interesting example is some of the Linksys routers do indeed use an embedded Linux along with Zebra as the routing engine. Ted
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