In this interview, Hans discusses his background and how he came to create Namesys and Reiserfs. He looks back at Reiser3, describing the advantages it had over other filesystems when it was released and its current state. He then explores the many improvements in Reiser4, describing the plugin architecture and its exciting potential for future semantic enhancements.
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No, you seem to not comprehend why you are getting modded down. This is a story and thread about the ReiserFS Filesystem.
You might want to re-read the title of the article: Hans Reiser: Interview. What that means is that it is not just about filesystems, but also the content of that interview as well. You have actually read it I presume? It's not just about the summary. In that interview Hans Reiser is asked for his opinion on licenses and developing filesystems for closed systems, thus:
"Jeremy Andrews: How important is the GPL to you? Do you have any interest or intention of working on a filesystem for any of the BSD operating systems, or for any closed source operating systems?"
In reply to that he mentioned that in payment, he would want any company or person to pay him something back in the form of new or modified code to make Reiser 4/FS better. That's why isn't he isn't as keen on BSD licensing. Not that he hates it, just that he isn't keen and he personally doesn't find it sensible.
Unfortunately, all this means any issues brought up therein that might be uncomfortable for certain people. However, that doesn't mean we can't still mod down stupid comments.
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2005-07-04
Quote: "What he is saying is that he doesn't want anyone to profit from his code while not giving anything back. It has nothing to do with closed or open code."
Have IQs dropped on this site? It seems that they have. Or basic comprehension skills. Or both. Yes, definitely both.
The whole idea of the GPL is to make sure that improvements that are made go back to the community. For the community. The BSD license does not ensure this. In fact, it fights vehemently to make sure that this doesn't happen. And yes, it does have absolutely everything to do with open and closed code. Open code remains open, in it's entirety. Closed doesn't. If the ReiserFS had been released under a BSD license, you'd see numerous ripoffs from Microsoft and other corporate leechers, with no improvements going back to the core code that they've leeched. And, those same improvements would remain private and closed. That is NOT open source. Far, far, far from it.
Big business loves the BSD license because it can take, and never have to give back. That is greedy, and immoral. Of course, modern business doesn't really give a fuck about being "moral", does it? Money is the big god, money and control.
You know, all of you BSD trolls can mod me down till the sky turns pink, it doesn't change the basic facts and truths of my (and others) arguments. And, I must be striking pretty close to the truth, since it seems to piss off so many BSD Luddites. Oh, and the modding down doesn't really worry me, it's just a form of social control to silence people, nothing more and nothing less. So much for true freedom of speech.
Dave
PS Oh, and get the balls to get an account, instead of being an AC.
No, you seem to not comprehend why you are getting modded down. This is a story and thread about the ReiserFS Filesystem. You are talking about GPL vs. BSD. Now, when you click to mod someone down, there a set of criteria you should follow before modding someone down. I will post what it says here.
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Like I said in my last post, your crap about GPL vs BSD has absolutely no relevance to the topic on hand. You are simply talking about it to start a flame-war and distract everyone in this thread from the topic on hand, which, in-case you have forgotten again, it is the Reiser Filesystem. Nothing more and nothing less.
Understand now?