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From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
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Date: 17 Dec 1995 21:07:15 GMT
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John S. Dyson (root@dyson.iquest.net) wrote:
: In article <4av4vk$988@helena.MT.net>,
: Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote:
: >
: >Note, the Linux iBCS emulator will run about 5% of the BSD binaries (if
: >that), and the author has posted that he will not work on it anymore
: >w/out monetary support, so it's a dead product with little use until
: >someone else makes it work.
: >
: What???? Profit motive and GPL????  I guess no one will do it...  I sure
: would not gain any advantage doing it with the GPL license (unless someone
: paid me for it) on Linux.  I still cannot understand companies that would
: risk redistributing their hard-earned (researched) technology under (or tainted
: by) ANY free license.  Tainting my code with some sort of GPLed library or OS
: in *any* way is too risky for me.  I guess that those who have nothing
: to loose like things such as welfare and GPL :-).  It is the war between
: the haves and have-nots.  Class warfare... :-).
: 
<laugh>...Why would I 'taint' my companies source code under BSD either?? =)
That's just about as bad.=)