16 Aug
2006
16 Aug
'06
9:55 p.m.
Umm...not to belittle BSD community but BSD isn't not exactly known widely, is it? Sure, they have great stuff but its not always superior
Marketing.
True. Strangely there isn't much to prove this. Why did not Redhat, Cygnus or Canonical choose to go the BSD way? My guess is nobody likes the prospect of having M$ laying its hands on the code. ;-)
I have heard Mark Shuttleworth say that he started with the GPL, shifted to BSD because he realised that the GPL was restrictive, then he reverted back to the GPL.
Cheerio, Debarshi
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That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
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