[nycbug-talk] BSD in the enterprise....

[Sunny Dubey]

I wasn't going to reply, so I'll just clarify a few things  (single response 
to both posts)

On Saturday 29 May 2004 02:03 am, Nigel Clarke wrote:
> What will it take to have *BSD in use in corporate environments?
> was not successful until companies like Solaris and IBM started to
> endorse it.

Solaris isn't a company, its a competing product of Sun Microsystems.  Sun 
has had a love/hate relationship with linux.

[...]

On Saturday 29 May 2004 02:39 am, G.Rosamond wrote:


> The vendor question is also important, as you raised it.  Because of
> BSD licensing, there's no need for a vendor to advertise the code being
> at the core of their closed source and or embedded system.  Snap
> Appliances, for instance, broadcasts that one of its product lines runs
> on Linux.  But try to find on their www site that their other product
> line uses BSD.  I tried it once, but it was fruitless.
>

There is not advertising clause in GPL either.  In fact its the adveritising 
clause of the original BSD license that RMS speaks out against 
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html), and its the same reason why 
projects like GnuTLS started (because OpenSSL has an advertising clause).



> Woah, it's late. . .
>
> g

Yeah, doesn't your wife worry about late nite hacking ?! haha

Sunny Dubey