-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/08 17:40, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/09/08 18:21, Nate Duehr wrote: >>> Real freedom = BSD. >> The BSD License allowed the Unix Wars to take place. > > How do you figure?
It allows people (in this case, corporations) to keep their code fixes and good ideas to themselves. Thus, the Unix Vendors fight amongst themselves, claiming that Unix & C are portable, while anyone who's tried to port from SunOS to OSF/1 quickly put lie to that myth. OTOH, while the GPL allows projects to fork, it makes available the source code, so everyone gets the benefits of everyone else's hard work. (Which is why the hardware and middleware vendors *love* Linux, but no Linux vendor will ever be nearly as wealthy as MSFT.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJlweS9HxQb37XmcRAl3pAKCfMwH1lUVCcAx8h10xBXD1btTQ5ACfdYq1 5SK/SiNY0QyzXjhG7FYMx/o= =w0sX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]