Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:03, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:41:41 -0700, Josh Berkus
>> <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
[snip]
> The coercion of the GPL is legalistic. If you distribute GPL
> stuff, you've got to give out the source code with it. So, you
> might as well give it to the community at large. With BSD, it's
> more that you'd be cutting yourself off from the community at
> large if you didn't return the code. So, the coercion is much
> more subtle. It's much easier to donate your code to the project
> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your
> own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own.

Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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