Posted by
AilleCat
on from the shift-in-paradigm dept.
BSD Todayreports that embedded RTLinux company, FSM Labs has decided to move into NetBSD as a general purpose OS layer to RTLinux APIs. This is following Wind River's acquisition of the software assets of BSDi. Makes one wonder whether the competition in the BSD arena is about to begin.
I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
by
MustardMan
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This makes alot of sense to me. Businesses have certainly seen already that using un*x-type OS'es can give great results in terms of stability and power. However, recently they are also seeing that it's really difficult to make money by producing GPL'ed software. All the PHB's are seeing all these companies that produce linux products folding. It's only natural that if they hear about BSD, and hear that the license allows them to take the software and not release their changes, that they are going to want to move to BSD where they can use the traditional proprietary business models they are used to.
disclaimer: This post is in no way meant to imply my preference of one license over another. That's one holy war I desperately wanna avoid.
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This makes alot of sense to me. Businesses have certainly seen already that using un*x-type OS'es can give great results in terms of stability and power. However, recently they are also seeing that it's really difficult to make money by producing GPL'ed software. All the PHB's are seeing all these companies that produce linux products folding. It's only natural that if they hear about BSD, and hear that the license allows them to take the software and not release their changes, that they are going to want to move to BSD where they can use the traditional proprietary business models they are used to.
disclaimer: This post is in no way meant to imply my preference of one license over another. That's one holy war I desperately wanna avoid.