[ILUG-BOM] BSD: Marketing

[lawgon at antispam]

Quoting jtd <jtd at mtnl.net.in>: 
 
> On Thursday 17 August 2006 03:25 am, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: 
> > >> 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 
> > > 
> > > Marketing. 
> > 
> > True. Strangely there isn't much to prove this. Why did not Redhat, 
> > Cygnus or Canonical choose to go the BSD way? My guess is nobody 
> > likes the prospect of having M$ laying its hands on the code. ;-) 
>  
> The commons relies on it's members' good behaviour to succeeed. But  
> often u will have bad apples. The GPL ensures that one can use the  
> law to keep the bad apples inline. BSD does not have this fall back  
> mechanism and would be very hard pressed to remain relevant over a  
> long period. It's reliance on a fairly closed community makes for  
> great performance but will not permit much innovation. 
 
compare the number of contributers to postgresql (bsd-style) to the number of 
contributors to mysql (GPL).