Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 03:05:53 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "Bill Swingle" <unfurl@dub.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Market share and platform support Message-ID: <000001befaaa$e6b4b760$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909032923.045a1da0@localhost>
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> Well, legally, there is a real concern. If WC pays you to work on FreeBSD > as an employee, they do own the work you do on it, as well as the > copyrights on any English or C code you might write and contribute on > company time. What's more, they do own equipment that's vital to the > project. The project really IS dependent on them. Well, so long as they've released all his previous work under the BSD license, they can only keep for themself future work. In other words, they can stop contributing at any time. *yawn* > Having been around the block a few times, I know that any such risk must > be explored as a part of due diligence, since the attitudes of people > and companies DO change. Yes, this means being a bit paranoid, > but that's what > due diligence is. Yes, the FreeBSD team could stop developing new versions of FreeBSD at any time. Linus Torvalds could die tomorrow, and perhaps there would be nobody around to continue his work. Who knows? The temporal continuity of both Linux's and FreeBSD's development is predicated upon numerous conditions that we can't predict. One should not assume that anything will continue to tomorrow. But I really don't see what you think WC can do to hurt FreeBSD. Whatever they did, what would stop all those people who felt it was bad from continuing the development of FreeBSD in some other direction on their own? In other words, what more could they do than stop helping? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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