I understand what they say and I like the people who work on freeBSD.
It is a fundamental theological choice to take other people’s work, add your own work, and then choose lock users out from it. Many companies like this approach to protect their intellectual property.
I personally believe that “intellectual property” is fundamentally incompatible with the human experience.
For this reason I will use GPL licensed software as it is designed to protect users from those who exercise their control in bad faith (VMware, Sony).
P.S. GPL enforcement has been pretty toothless lately but in the case of VMWare, if I recall correctly, this pretty much ruined the busybox project.
I understand what they say and I like the people who work on freeBSD.
It is a fundamental theological choice to take other people’s work, add your own work, and then choose lock users out from it. Many companies like this approach to protect their intellectual property.
I personally believe that “intellectual property” is fundamentally incompatible with the human experience.
For this reason I will use GPL licensed software as it is designed to protect users from those who exercise their control in bad faith (VMware, Sony).
P.S. GPL enforcement has been pretty toothless lately but in the case of VMWare, if I recall correctly, this pretty much ruined the busybox project.