Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.caldera.com!park.uvsc.edu!usenet
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 9 Dec 1995 09:39:12 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <4ablg0$pqr@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <DJ3DM7.n0L@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a14v5$1lq@dyson.iquest.net> <DJ533J.DDs@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a56vl$gvb@Mercury.mcs.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29856 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10130 comp.unix.advocacy:11985 comp.unix.misc:19972
les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:
] >Don't think yourself immune to being overtaken by a commercial
] >version. It happened to XFree86. That case is slightly different,
] >because Thomas Roell, who started XInside was the main author of
] >X386 anyway, so he wasn't 'stealing' from anyone by making a
] >private version.
]
] But how can anyone say that they are not better off for the fact
] that both commercial and free versions exist? Would you prefer
] that owners of some of the newer VGA cards simply be unable to run
] X at all since the free versions don't support them?
I don't have documentation for some video hardware because
some idiot doesn't understand the difference between "trade
secret" and "boot code", but he has a commercial product to
point at and non-disclosures I can sign t get the information
that I'm not allowed to redistribute.
I'd have to say that I'm *not* better off for this.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.