Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:24:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: jamie@itribe.net, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More important Windows Refund Day coverage... Message-ID: <199902211924.OAA02025@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <19990221180845.J93492@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 21, 99 06:08:45 pm"
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Greg Lehey said: > > To be fair to rms, if GNU is communist (and there's a lot going for > that theory; I've proposed it myself. Funnily, rms wasn't amused), > then FreeBSD is anarchist. That didn't work in society either. > I don't *quite* agree with the characterization that FreeBSD is anarchist. Actually, from a development standpoint (which is where GPL and BSD MOSTLY differ), the BSD approach optionally allows for ownership of ones own investment into derived works. GPL seems to ignore the value in the sense of capital. That GPL helps the merchandising from the standpoint that the derived code *has* to be exposed under certain terms, at the expense of the people with mostly development skills. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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