I understand what they say and I like the people who work on freeBSD.
It is a fundamental theological choice to take other people’s work, add your own work, and then choose lock users out from it. Many companies like this approach to protect their intellectual property.
I personally believe that “intellectual property” is fundamentally incompatible with the human experience.
For this reason I will use GPL licensed software as it is designed to protect users from those who exercise their control in bad faith (VMware, Sony).
P.S. GPL enforcement has been pretty toothless lately but in the case of VMWare, if I recall correctly, this pretty much ruined the busybox project.
I too enjoy what the BSD’s offer, but always find it ironic that it is always come company complaining about the gpl. Reading the post there are certain instances where it comes off as “We would contribute it we weren’t forced too”.
Furthermore, I would really like to find what specific things have companies like this contributed to the BSD’s. I know of a handful of companies that use BSD like Sony and Apple, but it is hard to tell sometimes what their involvement is. To a certain degree, I would expect the BSD’s to be much further along than they are if these companies are really doing so much.
I understand what they say and I like the people who work on freeBSD.
It is a fundamental theological choice to take other people’s work, add your own work, and then choose lock users out from it. Many companies like this approach to protect their intellectual property.
I personally believe that “intellectual property” is fundamentally incompatible with the human experience.
For this reason I will use GPL licensed software as it is designed to protect users from those who exercise their control in bad faith (VMware, Sony).
P.S. GPL enforcement has been pretty toothless lately but in the case of VMWare, if I recall correctly, this pretty much ruined the busybox project.
I too enjoy what the BSD’s offer, but always find it ironic that it is always come company complaining about the gpl. Reading the post there are certain instances where it comes off as “We would contribute it we weren’t forced too”.
Furthermore, I would really like to find what specific things have companies like this contributed to the BSD’s. I know of a handful of companies that use BSD like Sony and Apple, but it is hard to tell sometimes what their involvement is. To a certain degree, I would expect the BSD’s to be much further along than they are if these companies are really doing so much.