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[Marvin Dickens]

On Saturday 22 February 2003 09:37 pm, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> The BSD license is fine, too, but it means that pieces of it can show up
> in, oh, Windows NT without attribution.  The licenses accomplish
> different things.

I understand that any code release under the BSD license can turn up
anywhere, including in MS products: I really don't care: If the code is truly
free, B. Gates is welcome to it along with everybody else. This does not mean 
I like B Gate or MS: Quite to the contray. I think B Gates business practices
as well as those of MS are despicable. The fact is, I have not purchased any 
MS products nor have I run a copy of wintendo since 1997..... The BSD license 
is a personal choice for me that reflects my personal views on many 
subjects... However, with that said, whenever I work on anything that falls 
under the gpl, I release whatever code I have added/modified back into the 
gpl domain. But, like I said before, whenever i write code that is my 
original work, I use the BSD license. It's my right and I exercise that right 
exactly as the programmers who work solely on gpl'ed code. 

I think one thing we all should remember here is that every type of license 
has a place in our society as long as society and the law are willing to 
support said licenses. The GPL, BSD and proprietary licenses (As well as all 
variants of all three) have collectively gotten us where we are today. 

With that said, in my opinion, the biggest change to affect programming/coding 
has been the change from the development model that states software houses 
are nothing more than factories that produce software and consumers buy the 
end product to the model that states that programming/coding is a service and 
the consumer either pays for the software by purchasing support contracts 
and/or custom programming services and/or some other type of service related 
to the software and/or project. MS has not changed thiner model and still 
operate thier business as if they are a industrial factory which produces 
software like GM makes cars or Cessina make airplanes. IBM, Compaq and others 
are basically betting the farm that the software factory model is dead and 
the service model is now mainstream. I agree with IBM and Compaq: This is 
going to be one of the major undoings of MS.

The above are my 2 kopec's regarding this topic and nothing more.


Best

Marvin
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