On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Justin Krejci wrote: > On Friday 23 February 2007 02:11, T.J. Duchene wrote: > >> The BSD crowd, though love to share ideas with everyone, as well as >> code - much to their credit. There are those though (again, my >> opinion) who abuse their work, by making derivatives solely >> proprietary. > > Is it really abuse? Is there an expectation that they give something back? You are right. There is no such expectation and that is why BSD is not a very good license. > And actually they technically are giving something back: their > product/service is probably better because of the free access to free > quality code. In other words, what we are getting back is more powerful competition from the multi-billion dollar proprietary software industry. This helps to promote the myth that proprietary software is better than free software. > If Microsoft is (or maybe its now "was") using BSD derived networking > code, don't you think their networking code is probably better off and > less likely to be vulnerable thus making the internet and websites and > internet services you use that are running on or dependent on windows > more reliable? You win, they win, we all win. :) Strengthening Microsoft is not exactly the kind of winning that I want to be a part of. In fact, I would say that your argument makes a good case for the exact opposite of what you are concluding. Mike