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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Qx2: 386sx & gpl Date: 10 Jun 1995 20:37:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3rcvqm$hj2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3rcoru$t57@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3rcoru$t57@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, james minyard <minyard@pollux.cs.uga.edu> wrote: >1) why is running freebsd in a 386sx "not recommended" (per some docs at >freebsd.org)? No particular reason other than it's slow! :-) >2) why don't some folks around here like the gpl? (this is a merely a >curiosity question -- is there something about it that i'm not aware of?) Commercial limitations.. It's too restrictive if it's your policy that people should be able to do ANYTHING with your software, including get rich off of it if they feel like it (not an easy thing to do, but anyone wishing to try certainly has my blessing). Jordan