FreeBSD Popularity
Brett Glass
brett at lariat.net
Mon Mar 1 00:26:58 UTC 2010
At 11:53 AM 2/28/2010, Jamie wrote:
> In BSD (DragonflyBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD) there is a real attitude
> problem, the idea seems to be "GNU sucks and you should use BSD
> alternatives".
The problem is with the licensing. Those of us who are professional
developers and develop commercial software cannot safely inspect
GPLed code for legal reasons. This is why I and many other
developers favor a completely BSD-licensed solution.
> You don't really see GNU-folk bashing BSD,
Actually, you do. And they do something even funnier -- they try to
put their own stamp on Linux. (Just call it "Linux" in front of
Richard Stallman, and you won't hear the end of it. He'll yell,
"It's GNU/Linux. Gnooooooooooooooooo-LINUX!")
Which is doubly ironic because every Linux distribution contains
bunches of code from BSD. ;-)
--Brett Glass
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