At 05:14 PM 12/19/2000, you wrote:
>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?
Welcome to the Animal Farm!!!! THIS was my point about the FreeBSD camp
particularly alienating binary vendors as to drive them away. The kernel
make has been broken for years....the "fix it yourself" aka "tough sh*t"
echo has been heard loud and clear.
They dont want your stinking binary contributions. Get used to it.
DB
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