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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!koala.uwec.edu!daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu!cakerwood!not-for-mail From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 17 Dec 1995 21:03:15 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4b20ij$tk6@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <4apvl8$pgs@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <4atpt3$cqi@park.uvsc.edu> <4avcab$bk5@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <4b0tu2$1v6@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cakerwood.acc.uwrf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31389 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11162 John S. Dyson (root@dyson.iquest.net) wrote: : In article <4avcab$bk5@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>, : BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM <bl03@uwrf.edu> wrote: : > : >BSD give them the bar and says,"Here it is...all free...no R&D cost become : >some other smuck did it..And no requirements to say..'So and so did such : >and such part..' Because it could be considered Adveritising." : > : >Is this better then... : > : >GPL goes, "Here is what the bar is at...If you want to use us...you have to : >give credit and return back your R&D so no one can be taken advanage of." : > : You are almost totally incorrect -- credit MUST be given if the BSD License : is used -- but not in advertising -- especially as an endorsement. I guess : that I am just a smuck, hehehe -- I am getting GOOD work because of my BSD : involvement :-). It is working *exactly* as I had predicted (and it has : worked well for one of my friends with *significantly* less involvement : in FreeBSD.) FreeBSD is becoming the one to watch... :-). I KNOW that if : I had said that I had involvement in Linux, I could have been getting really : good sysadmin jobs (instead of RESEARCH and development jobs.) :-). : Ok...(Last words I'm going to say..=) Please enlight me on HOW you get credit for your "VM" under FreeBSD if I would take and privatize a version?? Since source would not be seen. How would anyone know? Am I required to put a CREDIT file on the disk somewhere?