On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Mahesh Aravind <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This is nonsense ... BSD people will confirm that. Their flagship > >> >> distros are lagging behind. >> >> ...precisely because their license is too naive. >> > >> > Point! >> > >> >> How? Please Explain! >> > > Not debating the technical merits of *BSDs. >
So you acknowledge you can't debate that? >You can argue how they continue to > superior to GNU. > Forget my argument! What is the truth? > Just consider popularity? BSDs vs. GNU/Linux? > Is popularity everything? The the Proprietary MS Windows wins isn't it? > What is the role of an OS? To make it easy for people to use computers. > Is that the role of an OS? That may be one point for one category of users :-) At this point Let me bother asking you about your Technical knowledge? In which all domains have you used Computers? What all have you done with computers with a production basis? I want to give my reply according to your back ground and knowledge > How else > can it be achieved without the OS being popular? > I didn't get the "it" in the above sentence. Could you please Explain "it"? > The ONE reason GNU/Linux grew up to compete with shrink-wrapped OSs was due to > GPL, and the community it built around it. > Growth in terms of Technology? or Growth in terms of Features? Usefulness? or Growth in terms of the No. of users using it? So how did GPL help in these three areas of Growth? And BSDL adversely affect the BSDs? > GPL invites everyone to contribute, making it easy for them to write > modifications without fear of their work getting locked up. BSDs kinda invite > only programmers to hack on, who mostly write stuff just because what they > write > is technically challenging? > No, there is no special invitation for any one in either of the 2 projects. > > The viral quality is a feature, not a bug! > Let us discuss this! Let us list the Features Linux has and BSDs lack! Now the Discussion is getting Technical. Come on, Please State the Facts. Let us be fair. Let us state our arguments on facts as much as we know them so please go ahead and list the features Linux has and BSDs are lagging behind :-) All the Best! --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
