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BSD For Linux Users

Posted by michael on from the bridging-the-digital-divide dept.

noackjr writes "Matt Fuller posted among his rants a great introduction and explanation of BSD For Linux Users: 'It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I have a few theories on why that is, but that's not really relevant. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb.'"

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  1. Re:Odd title. by Chaostrophy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No shit.

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    Plato seems wrong to me today
  2. IT's NOT about technology, but freedom by argoff · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The problem with the BSD approach is that it doesn't see copyrights (the right to restrict what people copy) as a restriction on peoples freedoms. It's sorta like saying I believe I should have the freedom to restrict other peoples speech, but if you don't want to restrict other peoples speech - that's OK too. Where the GPL is more like saying, "I'll use my power to restrict your speech when you use your speech to restrict others" In fact, in the information age, we minus well be discussing free speech like this because in the eyes of the internet there is no difference between copyright content and free speech content. You either half to have the power controll all of it or none of it.