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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