Quoting jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 17 August 2006 03:25 am, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > >> Umm...not to belittle BSD community but BSD isn't not exactly > > >> known widely, is it? Sure, they have great stuff but its not > > >> always superior > > > > > > Marketing. > > > > True. Strangely there isn't much to prove this. Why did not Redhat, > > Cygnus or Canonical choose to go the BSD way? My guess is nobody > > likes the prospect of having M$ laying its hands on the code. ;-) > > The commons relies on it's members' good behaviour to succeeed. But > often u will have bad apples. The GPL ensures that one can use the > law to keep the bad apples inline. BSD does not have this fall back > mechanism and would be very hard pressed to remain relevant over a > long period. It's reliance on a fairly closed community makes for > great performance but will not permit much innovation. compare the number of contributers to postgresql (bsd-style) to the number of contributors to mysql (GPL).
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