First open source OS

[rek2 at linuxbusca.com (ReK2)]

Linux license in general "GPL" is better than the BSD license in a linux 
ideal way(for linux users, of course BSD users will complain). BSD let big 
monsters steal their code with out having to give back nothing to the 
community.. when the idea of the GNU GPL license simple protect the 
programmer against this, it makes sure that if you take my code you will also 
return any changes you make to it to the community.
and I LIKE THAT. I don't want no big corporation making money of my code, if 
they are not willing to give my community something back to us to share.

rek2


On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:07 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I should probably get Clem Cole in on this one. The AT&T suit was not so
> much proprietary code as it was Unix itself. Had AT&T prevailed, it would
> have affected Linux as well. I think that Linux benefitted from the
> misconception that the AT&T suit was based on copyright violations, which
> it was not.
> I'm not sure which is a "better" system, Linux or BSD. Much depends on the
> distribution people use mostly WRT tools, utilities and applications.
>
> On 20 Dec 2001 at 12:15, richb at pioneer.ci.net wrote:
> > GAF wrote:
> > > They state thet Linux is the first completely open source operating
> > > system. I think they are wrong on a couple of counts. FreeBSD predates
> > > Linux, but was kind of overshadowed by the AT&T lawsuit.
> >
> > I'm not too sure about that.  I brought up Linux in December 1992 and I
> > don't recall FreeBSD being completely open at that point--you still had
> > to use some AT&T proprietary code to get it up and running.  I chose
> > Linux over FreeBSD at the time because of that, and because of the active
> > newsgroups which seemed to have more momentum at the time.  FreeBSD's
> > popularity surged in 1994 or thereabouts.
>
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
>
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