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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:34789 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1716 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <1993Apr18.174755.28745@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS References: <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Apr17.190517.4276@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> <1993Apr17.231000.103368@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 17:47:55 GMT Lines: 33 In article <1993Apr17.231000.103368@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@trumpet.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes: [ Emacs story ] > >Now, it really, Really, REALLY angers me to think of these big >corporations taking public-domain and otherwise free software and >distributing it as their own and actually getting money for it. How >DEVOID of work-ethic does some have to be to pull a stunt like that? And >you're saying that you're pleased as punch if DEC can just ftp a copy of >386BSD and start selling it for $500/copy as DEC-BSD/PC or something?!?! Ah yes, it is much more 'morally' correct to do the same thing, but call it a 'much nobler' way to restrict code. My grief is caused from this complaint of 'stealing' code, and then the same thing happening 'for the good of all men', when if fact it is the SAME THING!! I don't claim to be perfect, but I don't claim to be doing 'great and wonderful things' to the world by taking someone's code and then slapping a more restrictive copyright on it. That's the bottom line. What you choose to do with my code is your business. But don't tell me you are doing the world a favor by restricting my work. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom