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> Some people in the BSD world are adamant that their code should not be contaminated by the GPL Yes, and? They want people to be able to use their code freely

by stiray 2y ago

> Some people in the BSD world are adamant that their code should not be contaminated by the GPL Yes, and? They want people to be able to use their code freely, without limitations. Check golang packages, they are mostly BSD/MIT. Thats why BSD is in Playstation and Macs. You think there would be linux GPLed code? There is a usecase for everything and linux doesnt cover them all.

jraph 2y ago
>> Some people in the BSD world are adamant that their code should not be contaminated by the GPL > Yes, and? And? Nothing. I'm making an observation, I'm not judging here. They have a strong stance on this, often because they deeply thought about the consequences. I don't agree with them, and I don't care for helping Apple and Sony make their proprietary products, I think we'd probably be in a better world if they participated in improving the commons and that's actually how Linux succeeds, but I respect this stance when it's well thought out.
- stiray 2y ago
  I think that there is completely different reason why they dont participate in improving the linux. As its fundamental mantra of "move fast, break things" is creating bigger and bigger gnordian knot, while FreeBSD mantra is being well though, designed and stable. SystemD will never get into FreeBSD. Docker is still behind FreeBSD jails (released 2000!) that are a security feature since the start. And so on. And people using and developing it, like such system, which linux is absolutely not. For fun check this beauty: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setfib&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setfib&apropos=0&s... This why we use FreeBSD. As not only its kernel but also its userspace is well designed.
  - jraph 2y ago
    The *BSD have their merits beyond licensing matters indeed, including technical, design, organizational. That's what would make me look into them.

by stiray 2y ago

jraph 2y ago

>> Some people in the BSD world are adamant that their code should not be contaminated by the GPL > Yes, and? And? Nothing. I'm making an observation, I'm not judging here. They have a strong stance on this, often because they deeply thought about the consequences. I don't agree with them, and I don't care for helping Apple and Sony make their proprietary products, I think we'd probably be in a better world if they participated in improving the commons and that's actually how Linux succeeds, but I respect this stance when it's well thought out.

stiray 2y ago
I think that there is completely different reason why they dont participate in improving the linux. As its fundamental mantra of "move fast, break things" is creating bigger and bigger gnordian knot, while FreeBSD mantra is being well though, designed and stable. SystemD will never get into FreeBSD. Docker is still behind FreeBSD jails (released 2000!) that are a security feature since the start. And so on. And people using and developing it, like such system, which linux is absolutely not. For fun check this beauty: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setfib&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setfib&apropos=0&s... This why we use FreeBSD. As not only its kernel but also its userspace is well designed.
- jraph 2y ago
  The *BSD have their merits beyond licensing matters indeed, including technical, design, organizational. That's what would make me look into them.