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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 8 Dec 1995 02:01:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4a86a2$3an@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <DJ6y7H.MIE@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a6fgo$6lg@agate.berkeley.edu> <4a7d9p$860@muirwood.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29569 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9965 comp.unix.advocacy:11853 comp.unix.misc:19906 In article <4a7d9p$860@muirwood.convex.com>, Larry Daffner <ldaffner@convex.com> wrote: >I'd like to pint out something here. The GPL is NOT very complicated >at all. There are 3 main points to the GPL. Sorry, but not complicated for you != not complicated for industry. Clearly, you've never worked for a corporate monolith. The complexity of EVERYTHING becomes magnified. Want to order some staples? Fill out a requisition and submit it to purchasing along with your cost center number, your boss's authorization (since mere peons like yourself are not allowed to generate purchasing requests) and a description of just what the staples are intended for. Then wait until purchasing orders it from an approved channel and you'll have your staples in, oh, maybe a month or two. As to "setting up an FTP server", ye gods! First off, you're not allowed to do such insanely insecure stuff yourself - that has to be done by the MIS department and they never return your phone calls anyway. Since this is also now a LEGAL requirement, it also has to be approved by the legal dept (more waits) and a PROCEDURE needs to be established, documented in triplicate, to make sure that all the right steps are followed from now until eternity. Small wonder then that many departments simply tell their engineers to avoid to GPL at all costs. What's simple and easy for you as Joe Programmer is not at all relevant to this discussion. Jordan