[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On 08/17/2006 01:18 AM, Dinesh Joshi cobbled together some glyphs to say:
>> BSD license fans were happy to see their code being reused by MSFT.
>>  They point out that this is a strength of the BSD license. GPL
>> license fans will point out that all of Microsoft's changes weren't
>> made available back to the BSD community and claim that this is a
>> weakness.
> BSD license is kinda short sighted. The community grows and benefits
>  when everybody contributes BACK to the community. What did MSFT 
> contribute to the BSD community? They just leeched! :/

Well, but ironically the BSD people don't agree on this ... they just
cry, beg for money and blame people for not giving back [1].
Technically they are one of the best in the world, but they are wrong in
expecting that people would give back for something which is essentially
thrown into the public domain.
This is something which the GPL cures. On the other hand, BSD licenses
may good for proof-of-concept stuff or some standard which you want to
be accepted quickly.
Regards,
BG

[1] http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/

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