[ILUG-BOM] BSD

Devdas Bhagat devdas@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Thu Aug 17 16:37:08 IST 2006


On 17/08/06 02:40 -0700, lawgon at au-kbc.org wrote:
> Quoting Devdas Bhagat <devdas at dvb.homelinux.org>: 
>  
<snip>
> > Which works on the assumption that people using/deriving BSD code want 
> > to stay in sync with HEAD. 
> >  
> > I don't know of too many projects doing this. They usually use the BSD 
> > stuff as a way to get to a running start, but not much beyond that. 
>  
> again postgresql, django, zope, lighttpd, apache?, subversion? 
>  
And how many of those have been rolled into closed products with
significant changes, and kept on going that way?

The only one I can think of is Bizgres.
The biggest exceptions I can think of are Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft and
Apple Computers.

Devdas Bhagat



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