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I think the philosophy behind the BSD license is to write great code and to maximize it's usage across the world without expecting anything in return. This is e
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
I think the philosophy behind the BSD license is to write great code and to maximize it's usage across the world without expecting anything in return. This is especially good for standardization of things, like the TCP implementation that even Windows used.
So, I guess the developers must be happy at it being widely used in the form of iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches, even if BSD doesn't see a dime of the $100B+ in cash and billions more every quarter that Apple made leveraging it.
- danieldk 14y agoSo, I guess the developers must be happy at it being widely used in the form of iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches, even if BSD doesn't see a dime of the $100B+ in cash and billions more every quarter that Apple made leveraging it. I would be sad, since even 0.01% of that is $10M, which would amount to 20 such FreeBSD fundraisers. Of course, the BSD license allows you to take code an run with it, but it would still be very nice if Apple donated at least some amount that is absolutely insignificant to them. Judging from [1], they don't even donate a penny. Of course, in the past they used to donate code. [1] http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml
- riffraff 14y agoarguably, apple just provided the future default C/C++ compiler (clang) with a BSD license that the BSD folks wanted for years.
- sagarun 14y agoJFYI, Yahoo! sponsors most of the freebsd.org and other infrastructure related to freebsd.