Re: Effectiveness of GPL vs. BSD (was Re: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias))

Deven T. Corzine wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Roland wrote:
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>>The example FreeBSD x Linux show that GPL products can have more success 
>>than BSDL.
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>Huh?  If Linux is more successful than FreeBSD, why would you jump to the 
>conclusion that the LICENSE is responsible?  Seems much more likely that a 
>difference in the SOFTWARE would account for it first.
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Huh? Why would you say that? They are both implementations of *nix and 
most of the source code is available to anyone who wants to compile it, 
so...  I think Roland has a point thats pretty strong.  I think you can 
look for other excuses but this is a pretty apples to apples comparison.


Tony Lambregts