You're a mac user aren't you.. :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason T. Nelson Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:31 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Advice on OS Choice
In our last exciting episode, Kevin Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > With Red Hat Enterprise, you're paying for the "privilege" of getting > a packaged distro with support and upgrades. If you don't need the > support then you can freely use White Box and get exactly the same code. > The White Box distro can get away with this because of the GPL. If > GNU/Linux was licensed under a BSD-style license then Red Hat could > easily close the source - just as Apple did when they stole BSD code > to create "their" OS/X effort. I don't believe that Red Hat would do > that sort of thing anyway - those tactics are best left to Apple and > Microsoft. Umm.. subtle but very important point here. Apple did not "steal" BSD code. BSD code cannot be stolen. It is given away as basically a gift. Stealing implies that the person you stole from has now lost something. I don't see FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD as having lost anything; in fact, Apple has returned many things to the community without being coerced as could be said about GPL-licensed code. -- Jason T. Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jtn.cx/~jtn/ GPG key fingerprint = 6272 5482 EDDD D0A3 FED2 262A FABB 599D FF67 6C9E disclaimer: My opinions are my own. Don't bother my employer about them. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
