Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35476 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1864 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 17:34:59 GMT Message-ID: <C5wBIC.Cu7@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <9304181046.aa28257@gate.demon.co.uk> <matthew.735171544@femto.engr.mun.ca> <9304200034.ag09432@gate.demon.co.uk> Lines: 22 In article <9304200034.ag09432@gate.demon.co.uk> damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes: > What I mean to say is software writers > are proud of their little creation, they think is a neat bit of coding, > solves a problem in a neat and generic way etc etc. Agreed. And for many of us it's quite enough to be able to say "you know, I wrote the VT-100 emulation code in SuperExpensiveCommPackage". So only a few of their friends know... they're the ones that count most anyway. I know for certain that there are commercial vendors using code that I wrote without giving me credit, because I've seen familiar graphics objects show up in shrinkwrapped packages. That's cool. It's fine for me to be able to say "hey, that's my file requestor" without having it waved in everyone's face. I'm *glad* they're using it. If I'd GPLed it, they'd have used something else and I'd never have the opportunity to say "hey, that's mine!". No thanks. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` My Apple-II has more RAM than my Mac!