Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch)
Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch)
Posted Sep 13, 2009 14:55 UTC (Sun) by clump (subscriber, #27801)In reply to: Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch) by trasz
Parent article: Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch)
No, let me repeat. When some company takes BSD code from some project and creates its own, closed-source fork, there is a non-zero probability that this company will hire developers from the project and return code that is not a selling point for them. That happens a lot - from PostgreSQL to FreeBSD to Xorg. That's symbiosis."This happens a lot" is a pretty thin broth to serve. It's nowhere close to being required by the license to make changes available.
When GPL-ed project takes BSD code from some project and creates its own, GPL-ed fork, there is zero probability of the original project getting anything in return. This just doesn't happen - for variety of reasons, one of which is that the GPL license prohibits incorporating changes back to the BSD-licensed code. That's not a symbiosis.Zero probablility? This is completely false. You seem to be arguing that since companies that make proprietary code from BSD *can* return code, they *will* return code. Yet your anti-GPL arguments miss the point that GPL code *can* be dual-licensed... allowing them to be used by ... BSD-licensed projects. Need an example? Hostap. Look at NJS's comment as well.
You don't appear to be saying anything on-topic, I might add. It's as if you've been asleep for nine years and woke up fresh to bring the year 2000's favorite dead horse back for new kicks.