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Ted, I am a fan of flak and have great respect for OpenBSD and it's developers and community. I in no way intended to suggest that developers who choose a permi

Ted, I am a fan of flak and have great respect for OpenBSD and it's developers and community. I in no way intended to suggest that developers who choose a permissive license "kill kittens" in their spare time. I was talking about a bigger scale where large companies promote permissive licenses so they can take and lock up. I respect the fact that BSD developers and those that choose that license think it's the right way to go and, as recent contributions from Microsoft to OpenSSH have shown, sometimes it is of great benefit to the developers to choose such a license. Then again not everyone attracts the attention that the BSD projects do and so I believe there are circumstances where the GPL is more appropriate. I just don't get why there isn't room for both types of licenses depending on circumstance, developer choice and what's best for the entire software ecosystem. Sorry if I offended...

rc4algorithm 11y ago
Oh, jesus. They got $20,000-50,000. Such sellouts, right? Have you looked at Linux's sponsor list and budget lately? Good thing they GPL'd it - otherwise it might have ended up powering an intentionally obfuscated and user-restricting codebase like Android... OpenBSD gets less money per unit societal value than any other software project I'm aware of.
- smhenderson 11y ago
  Sellouts? I said no such thing nor even implied it. I am genuinely thrilled that MS contributed so much to OpenBSD and will use it as a standard in Windows. I applaud them for stepping up and contributing. Microsoft is not my favorite company but I have no problem acknowledging and appreciating it when they do something right. I agree that people should contribute more to OpenBSD or their side projects like OpenSSH. I give very little by purchasing OpenBSD gear so I am grateful when a company steps up and contributes.
tedunangst 11y ago
No worries, I was feeling a bit puckish.

rc4algorithm 11y ago

Oh, jesus. They got $20,000-50,000. Such sellouts, right? Have you looked at Linux's sponsor list and budget lately? Good thing they GPL'd it - otherwise it might have ended up powering an intentionally obfuscated and user-restricting codebase like Android... OpenBSD gets less money per unit societal value than any other software project I'm aware of.

smhenderson 11y ago
Sellouts? I said no such thing nor even implied it. I am genuinely thrilled that MS contributed so much to OpenBSD and will use it as a standard in Windows. I applaud them for stepping up and contributing. Microsoft is not my favorite company but I have no problem acknowledging and appreciating it when they do something right. I agree that people should contribute more to OpenBSD or their side projects like OpenSSH. I give very little by purchasing OpenBSD gear so I am grateful when a company steps up and contributes.

tedunangst 11y ago

No worries, I was feeling a bit puckish.