[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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