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That might have been true in the past, but I don't see it being true these days. Lots of companies are only now figuring out the benefits of free software. Just
by nawitus 12y ago
That might have been true in the past, but I don't see it being true these days. Lots of companies are only now figuring out the benefits of free software. Just look at Microsoft for one example.
- davexunit 12y agoBut they only see the technical benefits of Open Source, not the ethical benefits of Free Software. This means that we'll continue to see the spread of the "Open Source almost everything" methodology, which leads to a world where libraries are free, but the applications built from them are not. The developer gets freedom, but the user doesn't.
- dekhn 12y agoSome of the older network tools in Windows (nslookup, etc) are actually dervied from BSD. That was done... 20 years ago now?
- hga 12y agoThe whole TCP/IP stack came from BSD. It was already pretty much the standard one. So back to August 1994 per Wikipedia and my rough memory.