Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Jan 2003 00:09 UTC
Well, we all have used Unix, in one form or another (maybe even through embeded products). But which one is your favorite flavor of Unix-based/Unix-alike OSes? Read more and vote! Update: SHAME on you, who ever you are: Messing/hacking with go2poll's code and altering the results in favor of FreeBSD. By doing so, you are doing MORE BAD than good to your favorite platform.
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"Why pay a big software department to develop for you when you can pay a small team of developers in addition to the free labour of the OSS world?"
I have recently seen what I consider may be an abuse of open source using the GPL.
An unnamed company releases software under dual license GPL. They open source the basic stuff under GPL. It only provides limited functionality this way and if you want to do anything useful, you have to commercially license the full product which is not open source in any form. They meet the letter of the law by open sourcing only the bits they want to and stating what is GPL and what is not, and keep the rest totally proprietary. How they can argue it as being GPL is beyond me - I've been scratching my head about it for a while - maybe I still don't understand their licensing model.
The worst of it is that their licensing costs are far too high to be practical for the project I am working on so they have ultimately lost out completely from any kind of sales they were hoping to make as a result of their product.
Now if they had released under BSD or something easier than GPL, it would have been enough of a sweetener to get the concept up & running and we could have met in the middle with licensing somehow.
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