freebsd should be rewritten based on microkernel architecture

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Sat Apr 18 16:24:46 UTC 2020


On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:26:54 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:50:09 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:  
>> >And here goes the *ABSOLUTE* reason why no developer who ever hopes
>> >to make any money at all from their work should *EVER* use GPL.  
>>
>> It's utter nonsense! Without doubts MIT, BSD and other licenses are
>> better for some projects, while for other projects GPL could grant a
>> bonus. 
>
>Not according to the FreeBSD foundation who recommends against GPL in
>almost all cases.
>https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.html
>(see sections 9 and 10)

They do not use the terms "absolute" and "ever".

Btw. if there are already a lot of GPL licensed libraries and kernel
abilities available for a project of some domain, that are not
available by such an amount, if at all by another licensed
infrastructure, it could become very expensive to create the required
infrastructure.

Those who make a living from whatever licensed software probably have
reasons to chose a particular license. Some probably chose the wrong
license by mistake, other chose a license that is good for them and
their customers.

I can't see that you are that successful with your business, as the
coder of Ardour is with his business. That might be a wrong conclusion,
let alone that the software license not necessarily is the reason for
more or less success. However, you are seemingly not programming in all
domains, but you don't restrain from generalizing.



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