Small team is trying to hard fork a whole operating system and improve it. It will end up as yet another GNU Hurd - toy project without any practical use. Whats even worse they intend to GPL3 their code, so even the potentially useful code they create will remain useless for general public as it wont be possible to port it back to *BSD due to license conflict.
Small team is trying to hard fork a whole operating system and improve it. It will end up as yet another GNU Hurd - toy project without any practical use. Whats even worse they intend to GPL3 their code, so even the potentially useful code they create will remain useless for general public as it wont be possible to port it back to *BSD due to license conflict.
Which is why some people really hate the GPL, because GPL fanatics always complain "but someone can steal your code!", yet completely ignoring the fac
Which is why some people really hate the GPL, because GPL fanatics always complain "but someone can steal your code!", yet completely ignoring the fact the GPL does exactly the same thing. GPL'd projects take code from BSD all the time, and yet none of it flows back, because the GPL has pretty much made it "proprietary" to the BSD crowd.
Which is why everyone ahtes the BSD crowd, because they'll say "Our stuff is so free you can take it and never contribute back to us and we're totally OK with that", and the GPL people respond "OK, sure, well we'd rather the code remain free, so we'll take it and keep it Free Software but make our changes unavailable under the same lice..." and the BSD people are all "HOW DARE YOU take our stuff and never contribute back to us, we're totally not OK with that."
I mean, pick a position guys, either be for letting other people use your code even if you never get to use their changes, or be against it. Stop being only in favor of people taking your code if the people taking it refuse to share with anyone at all, because that's a ridiculous position.
BSD is like liberals saying "raise your children how you want" and GPL comes along and is like "we don't want to vaccinate our children", then BSD gets all mad.
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Small team is trying to hard fork a whole operating system and improve it. It will end up as yet another GNU Hurd - toy project without any practical use. Whats even worse they intend to GPL3 their code, so even the potentially useful code they create will remain useless for general public as it wont be possible to port it back to *BSD due to license conflict.
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Which is why some people really hate the GPL, because GPL fanatics always complain "but someone can steal your code!", yet completely ignoring the fac
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Which is why everyone ahtes the BSD crowd, because they'll say "Our stuff is so free you can take it and never contribute back to us and we're totally OK with that", and the GPL people respond "OK, sure, well we'd rather the code remain free, so we'll take it and keep it Free Software but make our changes unavailable under the same lice..." and the BSD people are all "HOW DARE YOU take our stuff and never contribute back to us, we're totally not OK with that."
I mean, pick a position guys, either be for letting other people use your code even if you never get to use their changes, or be against it. Stop being only in favor of people taking your code if the people taking it refuse to share with anyone at all, because that's a ridiculous position.
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