[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai
lawgon at antispam
lawgon@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Thu Aug 17 08:15:42 IST 2006
Quoting Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.a.joshi at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:45, Philip Tellis wrote:
> > Sometime Today, DJ cobbled together some glyphs to say:
> > > BSD license is kinda short sighted. The community grows and
> > > benefits when everybody contributes BACK to the community. What did
> > > MSFT
> >
> > Tell that to the large BSD community.
>
> 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
> code / technology thats used by the masses. Look at M$ Windoze :). By
> far and large Linux is much well known, is more widely used and has a
> larger community.
well as mentioned before, python, apache, postgresql, subversion, lighttpd,
zope among others are all under bsd style licenses - also fairly well known.
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