On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Rob Hudson wrote: > > Other than the disadvantage of choosing a platform in the minority, > what's the reason to choose a GPLd platform? Or, why NOT choose *BSD? > The GPL actually encourages the right sorts of competition for the entire system to grow faster, this is why people debate over which VM should go into the Linux kernel, it's relatively easy for J. Random Hacker to get the patches and try out the different versions, and if he (or she) is working for someone who needs a specific feature, it has to be released, and nobody is going to be fooling themselves as to it will really be more valuable if it's kept secret. > If both *bsd and GNU/Linux were equally popular, from a business > perspective, I would think the *BSDs would be chosen. > If both english and esperanto were equally popular...
> -- > Rob <rob_at_euglug_dot_net> > my @euglugCode = qw(v+++ e--- eug+ bsd+++ gnu+ S+++); > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
