Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

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From: Alex Libman
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010 - 2:12 pm

Huge kudos to Theo & friends for creating the freest fully-functional OS
in existence!  Licensing politics (see http://copyFREE.org) is a big
reason why I switched to OpenBSD, even on the desktop, but it isn't a
black-and-white issue.  There are some things that FreeBSD does right.

I would like to see OpenBSD become even more of a leader in getting rid
of restrictive licenses (both proprietary copyRIGHT and anti-free-market
copyLEFT) by replacing things like gcc + toolchain, groff, lynx, etc.
Apache, sendmail, and artsy licenses (i.e. perl) aren't really copyFREE
either (I have a 256 word threshold for legalese).  The dependence on
perl in particular is a significant downside...


-- Alex Libman, http://AlexLibman.com
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Re: FreeBSD isn't Free, Alex Libman, (Sat Oct 9, 2:12 pm)
Re: FreeBSD isn't Free, Eric Furman, (Sun Oct 10, 5:29 am)
Re: FreeBSD isn't Free, Abel Abraham Camaril ..., (Sun Oct 10, 9:26 am)
Re: FreeBSD isn't Free, Randal L. Schwartz, (Sun Oct 10, 9:57 am)