On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:11:21PM -0400, Tony Lambiris wrote:

> Its a two way street. You have that company that will just take and take and
> give nothing back (*cough*strings ftp.exe|grep Berkerly*cough*), but I know

HEH!  Mine has no mention of Berkeley in it, but it does contain this
happy copyright notice:

  @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.

:)


> that some companies, especially ones that specialize in embedded devices
> donate money and/or code back to the projects they use, because there are
> those few companies that realize without the OS they are using, they most
> likely wouldnt have a business. Look at how much Red Hat has given back to
> the community. It all depends on the business I guess.

Agreed.  The BSD people ARE inviting people to use their code without
giving anything back... that's exactly the point of their license.
But it's still nice when people do...


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