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Re: EU study recommends OpenBSD

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Post by hobarrera » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 8:11 PM UTC

nitramafve wrote: post #46

cwyers wrote: post #36

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The GPL requires you to distribute source code in addition to binaries. If you don't distribute binaries (i.e. if you're running the code on your server farm only), then you don't have to distribute anything.

That is why some choose to license their work under AGPL.

And that would make no change for things like OSs.

If OpenBSD was AGPL and my ISP used it on all its network hardware with some custom modification, they still wouldn't be forced to contribute back those changes.

We need to stop making licences that attempt to force people to do the right thing, and start educating people to do the write thing out of free will.

Re: EU study recommends OpenBSD

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Post by xorcist » Fri, May 01, 2015, 11:50 AM UTC

hobarrera wrote: post #150

xorcist wrote: post #118

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There probably exists lots of differing experience on this, but I've found it easier to get permission to contribute paid work on a tit-for-tat basis, because it alleviates the "why should we let our competitors use our work for free" question. I don't think that it is a coincidence that GPL led to Red Hat, a billion dollar support and services company, while BSD let to a multitude of hardware companies. The former i…

> I don't think that it is a coincidence that GPL led to Red Hat, a billion dollar support and services company, while BSD let to a multitude of hardware companies. GPL isn't directly responsible for Red Hat. The popularity of GNU/Linux at the time (vs *BSD) of it's inception is responsible for that. Licence had nothing to do with it.

Don't take my word for it. Take Bob Young's.

Re: EU study recommends OpenBSD

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Post by dash2 » Fri, May 01, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

pXMzR2A wrote: post #147

dash2 wrote: post #75

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I wasn't dismissing the study's quality, just saying that this is not necessarily going to lead to any change in policy (e.g. all EU computers mandated to run OpenBSD).

> all EU computers mandated to run OpenBSD That kind of social change would require a change in the econo-political system.

I think mandating all EU computers to run _anything_ would be a very bad idea.