Yes! You're close, but all still missing the point
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 25, 2002 11:17 PM
Just think of where the Internet would be today if BSD did not release the TCP/IP code for everyone to steal and hack into their OS... It would simply not exist. Neither would VI, the fast filesystem, Email, and untold other "defacto standards" that were released by the CSRG. Some subjects are too touchy to standardize and you have to have someone with the guts to say, "Hey, while you were busy arguing, we got it going. Here you go... Put it in Solaris, put it on a Mac, and, yes, put it in Windoze, we don't care! "
GPL might possibly be a nice political statement, but handing over all rights to the FSF is not advisable. If you read section 9 carefully (the "or any later version of the GPL" part) you can see that all someone has to do is buy the FSF and change the license to kill any GPL'd code he wants.
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Yes! You're close, but all still missing the point
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 25, 2002 11:17 PMfor everyone to steal and hack into their OS... It would simply not exist. Neither would
VI, the fast filesystem, Email, and untold other "defacto standards" that were released
by the CSRG. Some subjects are too touchy to standardize and you have to have someone
with the guts to say, "Hey, while you were busy arguing, we got it going. Here you go...
Put it in Solaris, put it on a Mac, and, yes, put it in Windoze, we don't care! "
GPL might possibly be a nice political statement, but handing over all rights to the FSF
is not advisable. If you read section 9 carefully (the "or any later version of the GPL"
part) you can see that all someone has to do is buy the FSF and change the license
to kill any GPL'd code he wants.
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