Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:14:53 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT Message-ID: <20001219161453.A264@whizkidtech.net> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001219120619.020cbac0@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:25:43PM -0500 References: <Your <5.0.0.25.0.20001219111044.020739e0@mail.etinc.com> <43070.977244298@critter> <5.0.0.25.0.20001219120619.020cbac0@mail.etinc.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:25:43PM -0500, Dennis wrote: >Am I a thief because my company provides value added solutions without >source to our enhancements on a freebsd platform? If you are insulted that >other people are using your work without paying for it then it sounds like >you dont fit in very well with the "open source" community Mr. Kamp. This brings about a question I have been wondering about for quite some time: How do you submit binary-only code to the ports collection? I just re-read the porters' handbook, and it seems to be assuming that you will always release source code for everything. But I am thinking about porting some of my Windows software to FreeBSD, yet, I do not want to release the source code (since much of it is the same I *sell* to Windows users in binary-only form). Then again, I may decide not to do it: My latest port submission has been sitting in the GNATS database for months, so why bother submitting more when nobody cares anyway? I submitted that particular port because I needed it for a much bigger port that was going to depend on it, but I stopped working on it because at this pace of ports being processed it would take me several years (literally-I did the math) to submit everything I was going to submit (with the new submissions recursively depending on the older ones). Cheers, Adam -- Press any key to continue, any other key to quit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20001219161453.A264>