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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 31 Jan 1997 16:26:51 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <slrn5f3sp0.snc.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar>,
Roberto Alsina <ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> Lets put this question the other way: Are there BSD equivalents of the above?
Sure. Anything that runs on Windows NT is running on BSD code. If the BSD
license wasn't there then it's unlikely "winsock" would look so much like
Berkeley sockets, and we'd have even MORE trouble porting stuff between
Microsoftland and Freeland.
> But look at it this way: BSD license forces people to reinvent the wheels
> that get added to the commercial version based on BSD code.
Like the mpp code they wrote at whistle?
Oh no, they gave that back.
If a company is going to give software back, they're going to make that
decision before they decide what license they're going to use.
> PS: I don't have anything against the BSDs or the BSD license. It's just
> that their advocates seem to think the GPL is *bad*!. It isn't bad, it's
> just based on a higher goal.
Different goal.
Not necessarily a higher one.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'