Hamish Marson wrote:
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James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Dieter wrote:
if you're a start-up maker of home entertainment=20 appliances
or set-top boxes, then you have only one way to go: Linux.=20
Linux is not the only game in town.
I agree. Although I run Linux, I'm not certain that it is the best
choice for a commercial product. Some commercial applications
might have problems with the GPL.
There are a few small OS companies -- QNX comes to mind.
Then there are the other *NIXs.
Regular Solaris isn't going to be very expensive per box. Probably
free if you use Sparc hardware. There are some nice embedded
Sparc chips.
There is Open Solaris which I presume would be free.
There are several BSD flavors. These have the advantage of the BSD
license: "you can do anything you want with this software except
claim that you wrote it" :-)
Advantage to M$ perhaps... I know some like the BSD license, but I'm
not sure I do. I'm all for OpenSource etc, but making my code open
source for others to proft from & never give anything back makes me
think twice.
The advantage to a commercial project is that they can modify BSD and
not publish the changes.
UC Berkeley being a public institution almost had to license their
software this way. I do not advocate that individual developers use the
BSD license for their work.
This, unfortunately, leads to the unresolved problem of how to combine
BSD and GPL software. I have never understood this. It has always
appeared to me that if you combined BSD with GPL that you would have GPL
software that had to carry the copyright notice for the BSD software.
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JRT
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