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Taking MicroBSD for a Test Run

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-picobsd-or-nanobsd dept.

LiquidPC writes "In this article Jeremy Reed of BSDNewsletter.com talks about installing MicroBSD, what features make it special, troubles and successes I encountered, and the beauty of the BSD license."

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  1. Re:beauty of the BSD license. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    or me the big deal was that after years of development on such a critical network component by the 'best' software group in the world MS dumped it all for community code. They couldn't create anything of comparable quality. MS Winsock anyone?

    So?

    What you need to understand: it isn't your code, they can do what they want with their code. release your code with whatever license you want.
    The developers of code released under BSD style license are just fucking generous. plain and simple.
    It's not that they have never considered "Gee, what if someone uses this in a closed source system? Gee, what if someone or some Corp. rips off our code and we get nothing back?". They have considered that possibilty, and they dont care.

    Here is the flaming part of this post:

    Ideally: "we release completely free source"
    Realistically: "People rip off our shit"

    BSD style license is Ideals living despite Reality. GPL is Ideals living to confront Reality. You decide what the right lifestyle is for you and let me live the way i want.

  2. Re:beauty of the BSD license. by dinivin · · Score: 4, Interesting


    We've already established that MS ignored the advertising clause of the BSD license when it used the BSD TCP/IP stack. What makes you think that they wouldn't just ignore all of the clauses of the GPL?