Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:51:47 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <399CB2D3.BE634D97@mail.ptd.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000817212738.68978J-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Narvi wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > Take a look at www.sun.com today. The biggest thing on it is the GNOME > > > footprint. > > > > > ... > > > (3) It is yet another counterexample of corporates disliking GPL > > > software. > > > > Companies probably prefer BSD (meaning the license) to GPL when they are > > using other people's code, but when they are opening their own code, the > > might well prefer GPL. Managment is probably worried that if they use > > BSD on their code, some other company might make a profit from it, which > > would get management in trouble with their stockholders for essentially > > giving away a valuable asset. If they use GPL however, then they are > > guaranteed that they will be able to use whatever modifications the > > other company is using to make its profit. > > > > Huh! > > Gnome is not Sun's code, and Sun is not opening it up. I didn't mean that it was; I was making a general comment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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