Well, the key word here is bustards.
Like those that take BSD TCP/IP port or the whole OS and enclose it inside their own proprietary code.
Let's face it - it doesn't have to do anything with BSD being better than Linux, all there is to it is the GPL. Trust me, they want to take it (GPLed code) so hard but they can't, since license would impose opening of their own code. Those bustards.
That's how you steal an idea. FS and GPL are all about sharing and improving. Bustards don't do that. They just take improvements but do not share anything.
Why, for cryin' out loud, do we have to waste time on articles published in September and October 2001?
To make things even worse, people are trying to discuss something that's been chewed, re-chewed and over-chewed who knows how many times already. Once and for all - GPL is good, it protects people's work and creativity and prevents bustards from steeling ideas.
Couple of hours installing Linux on a friend's PC and/or promoting virtues of GNU/Linux/GPL/Free/Good... would be time spent in a much better way.
This was not meant as a flame or such but feel free to mod to the ground, who cares...
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Let's face it - it doesn't have to do anything with BSD being better than Linux, all there is to it is the GPL. Trust me, they want to take it (GPLed code) so hard but they can't, since license would impose opening of their own code. Those bustards.
That's how you steal an idea. FS and GPL are all about sharing and improving. Bustards don't do that. They just take improvements but do not share anything.
To make things even worse, people are trying to discuss something that's been chewed, re-chewed and over-chewed who knows how many times already. Once and for all - GPL is good, it protects people's work and creativity and prevents bustards from steeling ideas.
Couple of hours installing Linux on a friend's PC and/or promoting virtues of GNU/Linux/GPL/Free/Good... would be time spent in a much better way.
This was not meant as a flame or such but feel free to mod to the ground, who cares...