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It's not about the licenseIt's not about the licensePosted Sep 7, 2006 16:48 UTC (Thu) by mheily (subscriber, #27123)Parent article: The future of NetBSD
Why do people insist on starting yet another BSD v.s. GPL flamewar? This event has nothing to do with software licensing, and everything to do with organizational politics. Charles Hannum doesn't like the current "cabal" that is running the NetBSD Foundation after the "coup that took place in 2000-2001, in which The NetBSD Foundation was taken over by a fraudulent change of the board of directors." He blames this leadership, or lack of leadership, for hindering the progress of needed improvements to technical aspects of NetBSD (e.g. running a mixed 32 bit + 64 bit system).
WTF does this have to do with the GPL?
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It's not about the license Posted Sep 8, 2006 4:36 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Current growth and commercial support.
Both the BSD's and Linux has very strong commercial usage. With BSD systems your not going to see the code returned back to you it ends up in propriatory products like OS X.
With Linux and the GPL you get the code back and it goes on to improve the base product.
This is a big reason why even though FreeBSD and friends were technically superior to Linux systems for a long time, they aren't anymore. Linux has had a strong technological return from investments from people like IBM, SGI, HP, and other commercial stuff. The BSD's get some stuff back from people like Apple, but nothing that is realy important.
BSD code, because of it's license probably has wider usage then GPL'd code.. but it's not going to have much of a impact on people actually using straight BSD-based systems because they wont' ever see 90% of improvements done on it.
This probably doesn't have much to do with NetBSD's current orginizational woes, but it has a impact on the BSD distros as a whole when you compare BSD systems vs other systems. That's not to say that BSD systems taken by themselves aren't nice, so don't get me wrong here.
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