OSNews > Thread > "RE[2]: Shame on multinational companies" by eMagius

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Mar 2006 21:49 UTC

"Theo de Raadt is the project leader for OpenBSD, a Unix-like operating system. We spoke with Theo about the upcoming release of OpenBSD, 3.9, the financial state of the project, and about companies that profit from free software without contributing back."

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RE[2]: Shame on multinational companies

by eMagius on Wed 29th Mar 2006 02:03 UTC in reply to "RE: Shame on multinational companies"

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2005-07-06

No one's begging. Did you read the interview?

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I read the interview

by ryan on Wed 29th Mar 2006 04:02 in reply to "RE[2]: Shame on multinational companies"

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2005-07-06

Theo is complaining that Sun is using the BSD licence as it was intended. If he wanted Sun to play nice, he should have used the LGPL or something similar... whining that corporations are acting in their own best interest is not really that productive.

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RE: I read the interview

by Soulbender on Wed 29th Mar 2006 04:32 in reply to "I read the interview"

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2005-08-18

"Theo is complaining that Sun is using the BSD licence as it was intended."

This has nothing to do with the license. Stop trolling for flamewars.

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