Not at all. Re-read it. He particularly talks about people creating appliances and shipping them, and what they need to do to be compliant with the GPL, or how to avoid it by using BSD.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Interesting? to those who are subject to SOX On Jan 19, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Post, Mark K wrote: > This guy (and his writings and his company) came up on an internal > mailing list a while back, with people complaining about how he was > bashing the GPL, etc. My reply then, and now, was that when you take > into account his audience (companies that want to use an embedded OS > in an appliance, and who don't want to make their own source code > public) he's absolutely right. The BSD style licenses are much more > business friendly than the GPL. I read the entire white paper. I > found it to be > biased, certainly, towards the concerns of embedded appliance > manufacturers and sellers, but other than that, pretty much correct. > His advice was pretty much right on as well. Yeah, but the context, at least as presented, *wasn't* appliance manufacturers. It seemed, to me, pretty clearly designed to scare people off of USING (not MAKING) GPL-licensed products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
