Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Oct 2006 20:44 UTC, submitted by jasper
Red Hat has an NDA cooperation with Marvell for the wireless chips that they want to use for the One Laptop per Child-project. The idea of this is that both parties think Marvell will be more open in the future, but this is absolutely not the path they should walk, according to OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt. "I am getting really tired of 'open source' people who work against the open source community. Our little group can probably take credit for having 'opened up' more wireless devices than the rest of the community, and therefore we feel we have a better grasp of the damage OLPC has done here."
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Public domain is not a license !
Th Mona Lisa is public domain, Mozart and Bach are public domain, Shakespeare is public domain.
Public domain means it belongs to everyone and is free to use for any purpose because no one owns it, and no one can licence it.
BSD is not shared source, it's open. There is just a difference of philosophies between GPL and BSD licences.
GPL original is free forever, modified also free.
BSD original is free forever, modified might be free or might not be, could even go GPL.
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