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It's less about systemd and more about GPLv3 being rejected by companies -- startups included. The BSD ecosystem is much friendlier to businesses.
by feld 12y ago
It's less about systemd and more about GPLv3 being rejected by companies -- startups included. The BSD ecosystem is much friendlier to businesses.
- quadrangle 12y ago…friendlier to businesses… that rely on proprietary restrictions for their business.
- feld 12y agoYes, so? Anyone else can take the code and add their own proprietary features too. If they don't give back to the project it makes their life much harder.
- dllthomas 12y agoI think the point was "not all businesses". "I run a business" and "I need to keep my code proprietary" are two different statements - neither implies the other (in any logical sense - there is manifestly some correlation).
- pjmlp 12y ago> The BSD ecosystem is much friendlier to businesses. That keep their changes private.
- Sanddancer 12y agoI'd argue the BSD ecosystem is friendlier in general. GPL has this odd hostile attitude to it that seems to have only gotten worse of late...a feeling of preparation for war. I'm recalling Sony's presentation on why they chose LLVM/Clang [1], where they rather hated that they had to work on so much in secret, because they couldn't collaborate with the community, even though they didn't have to. Compare that to the FSF's stunts like "Windows 7 Deadly Sins" and you see the rather blatant hostility that seems to run rampant in the GPL camp. [1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain.pdf http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain....
- pjmlp 12y agoYes, so much that they haven't returned anything back to the community that helped them save development resources (money), or did they?
- Sanddancer 12y agoThey do. Here's a pretty extensive test suite that was committed not too long ago http://reviews.llvm.org/rL214126 http://reviews.llvm.org/rL214126
- pjmlp 12y agoThanks for the info.