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I've always blamed the licensing. Lots of people adopted BSD and Linux in the early years. The Linux users gave back (often because they had to) and the BSD us
by jsight 8y ago
I've always blamed the licensing. Lots of people adopted BSD and Linux in the early years.
The Linux users gave back (often because they had to) and the BSD users often didn't.
- pjmlp 8y agoWhich is a consequence of BSD style licenses, yet every time a project switches from GPL to something in the BSD spirit there are jumps of joy. So in the long run it is back to the old freeware days, with the lower lever free and everything on top closed, with zero contributions.
- IcePic 8y agoThat didn't seem to work the same way for say.. mail server software? Sendmail, postfix and qmail all had BSD-ish licenses, and those three covered quite a majority of all opensource mail serving at the time of BSD-vs-Linux "in the same early years"
- trasz 8y agoPostgreSQL, LLVM, Apache, Nginx, Xorg - all of those are covered by liberal licenses, not copyleft ones.
- trasz 8y agoDrivers for hardware that is better supported in Linux compared to FreeBSD - 90% of which is graphics - are usually licensed as MIT or BSD, not GPL, even though they are shipped as part of the Linux kernel. So, nah, it's not the license.