Dave, Idaya claims all the code in FreeVSD has been written by themselves. I quote : "Neither freeVSD nor ProVSD contains any code submitted by any person outside of the Idaya organisation."
And another quote : "Idaya is the copyright holder of all code in freeVSD and ProVSD. If you (or anyone else) can point out any code not developed by the Idaya organisation we will gladly remove it. We do not believe there to be any." Another interesting sentence : "Finally, I would like to say that freeVSD was originally released under GPL to give something back to the community from which it was born; but freeVSD is a growing project and that costs real money to keep alive." Dave Cost wrote: > Paul, > > >Dave, I do not work for Idaya; however, why not check it out of CVS--or > even > >better--enable Idaya to stay in business by having *decency* to buy the CD. > > I will buy CD when Idaya pays for my time spent on FreeVSD. I think that > you're missing the point. FreeVSD is GPL. It's up to each user of FreeVSD to > decide how to support the community. It's not Idaya who developed FreeVSD > (the source for virtuald for example has been around much before Idaya was > founded for example. I personally had a freevsd-like project which was > dropped because freevsd had a better community). WE, the COMMUNITY developed > it. Idaya had a big part of this, but they never declined help or patches > from US. > > Now imagine if redhat pulled out the plug, and started selling RedHat Linux > only on CD. Imagine if Linus Torvalds decided that Linux is it's own and > that if you wanted it, then you would have to buy it. How would the rest of > the people who spent money and time and efforts on these project feel? A GNU > project is owned by everybody, and everybody should contribute. > > You mention CVS. Yes, I have the CVS source. But how long you think this > source will be there? Do you expect idaya to release 1.4.11 there? If they > do, it will be only because of the efforts of ppl like me who will take them > in front of the FSF if necessary. > > To my eyes idaya is making business out of mine and others efforts *for > free*. Have you seen the pricing structure of ProVSD? In not, do it, and > you'll understand why I think we should stop them. > > Dave. > > ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- > Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support > Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support > Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
