Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 12, 2004 02:03 AM
Maybe Google is a parasite because they use the Internet to create a multibillion dollar company without giving back their search algorigthms. They use Linux (GPL'ed OS) to run their stuff without giving back to the community.
The three biggest companies are all on BSD: Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo. Care to tell me why they don't jump whole hog onto your GPL'ed bandwagon?
I don't understand your assertion: > After all, if they are capable of making ? > "exponential improvements" to software, why not > just do it all themselves? Or pay to license it > from other proprietary software developers?
MS and Apple spends billions on R&D. They take good stuff from BSD and use it where they see no reason to re-invent the wheel. That's exactly what BSD license is for....why reinvent the wheel for doing mundane things like TCP/IP stacks or basic OS functions like grep/awk/sed/ls? Where they add value is<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.net for MS and iTunes for Apple.
You really have a "dog in the manger" mentality that makes GPL bigots keep chasing MS and Apple's tail lights!. (case in point Mono chasing<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.net and LTunes from Lindows chasing ITunes) You guys have no imagination.
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Re:BSD, enabling parasites
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 12, 2004 02:03 AMThe three biggest companies are all on BSD: Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo. Care to tell me why they don't jump whole hog onto your GPL'ed bandwagon?
I don't understand your assertion:
> After all, if they are capable of making ?
> "exponential improvements" to software, why not
> just do it all themselves? Or pay to license it > from other proprietary software developers?
MS and Apple spends billions on R&D. They take good stuff from BSD and use it where they see no reason to re-invent the wheel. That's exactly what BSD license is for....why reinvent the wheel for doing mundane things like TCP/IP stacks or basic OS functions like grep/awk/sed/ls? Where they add value is<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.net for MS and iTunes for Apple.
You really have a "dog in the manger" mentality that makes GPL bigots keep chasing MS and Apple's tail lights!. (case in point Mono chasing<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.net and LTunes from Lindows chasing ITunes) You guys have no imagination.
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