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From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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Date: 17 Dec 1995 21:03:15 GMT
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John S. Dyson (root@dyson.iquest.net) wrote:
: In article <4avcab$bk5@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>,
: BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM <bl03@uwrf.edu> wrote:
: >
: >BSD give them the bar and says,"Here it is...all free...no R&D cost become
: >some other smuck did it..And no requirements to say..'So and so did such
: >and such part..' Because it could be considered Adveritising."
: >
: >Is this better then...
: >
: >GPL goes, "Here is what the bar is at...If you want to use us...you have to
: >give credit and return back your R&D so no one can be taken advanage of."
: >
: You are almost totally incorrect -- credit MUST be given if the BSD License
: is used -- but not in advertising -- especially as an endorsement.  I guess
: that I am just a smuck, hehehe -- I am getting GOOD work because of my BSD
: involvement :-).  It is working *exactly* as I had predicted (and it has
: worked well for one of my friends with *significantly* less involvement
: in FreeBSD.)  FreeBSD is becoming the one to watch... :-).  I KNOW that if
: I had said that I had involvement in Linux, I could have been getting really
: good sysadmin jobs (instead of RESEARCH and development jobs.) :-).
: 
Ok...(Last words I'm going to say..=)

Please enlight me on HOW you get credit for your "VM" under FreeBSD if I
would take and privatize a version??  Since source would not be seen.  How
would anyone know?  Am I required to put a CREDIT file on the disk somewhere?