Software patents

[Todd Stephens]

On Friday 12 September 2003 06:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote:

> I think he was talking about putting a protest on the freebsd
> website, like some linux distributions have done (eg
> http://www.debian.org) This would be free, wouldn't it ?

A large part of the reason of why I switched to FreeBSD from Linux was 
the absence of the patent/license fanaticism you find in the Linux 
community.  If this were a Linux mailing list, 3/4 of the messages 
would be about the GPL and how MS is evil, while here we have nearly 
all messages being oriented towards learning how to use and improve 
FreeBSD.

I think the *BSD communities are comfortable enough in their positions 
that they don't need to direct so much attention to themselves in that 
way.

-- 
Todd Stephens