About the calculus for the project

Tim's own time:

http://landley.net/hg/toybox/rev/413

He credited his employer, but that's not unusual:

http://landley.net/hg/toybox/rev/436
http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2006-July/016032...

What exactly is the logic here in objecting, by the way?

"Oh no, Sony is sponsoring new open source code under a license that would allow the code to be used in the Linux kernel itself! Horrors!"

"Oh no, the guy who started the BusyBox lawsuits in the first place is rendering them irrelevant!"

"Oh no, people are writing BSD licensed command line utilities because w'eve never seen THAT before..."

"Oh no, this code may be actually better than BusyBox and intends to compete on the technical merits and win!"

Rob

(Sheesh, I mothballed the toybox project a couple years back because I didn't think beating busybox on technical merit was _enough_ to displace an entrenched competitor with a 10 year headstart, including several years of my own work. But I wouldn't have bothered in the first place if I didn't think I could do a better job on a purely engineering level.)