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DosUSB licence and price (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 13.12.2008, 22:31

> > P.S. You forgot the "L", which stands for "libre" (as in freedom),
> > commonly used to refer to the GPL. The FSF/GNU dislikes the terminology
> > "open source".
>
> I quoted the en.wikipedia.org article name

"Open Source" is a trademark, originally coined by Eric Raymond, I think. And it's more about businesses using software for their needs. Free/libre is often used because of the confusing meaning of free: free as in beer or free as in speech. The GPL is almost always free in both senses although you are encouraged to charge for the initial release (which can then still be copied ad infinitum). To them, it's less a goal for enterprise adoption than a movement to liberate themselves from what they consider unethical (as they often put it). Many people prefer BSD licenses over GPL due to disagreements over which is more free. But GPL is hugely popular, so we're all bound to run into it somewhere. Even the main three *BSD OSes use GCC for all their compiling needs (which since after 4.2.1 is GPLv3). And some people are less thrilled about v3 than v2, go figure, and I didn't think it was that different. Oh well.

P.S. I installed NetBSD 4.0.1 in VirtualBox yesterday (although had to turn on AMD V-x in BIOS else "Bad address" errors), and they use GCC 4.1.2. I think there is real resistance to upgrading to newer versions due to licensing. And I think OpenBSD is somewhat hoping to make PCC a more useful compiler for their needs eventually. (*BSD camps typically prefer nvi and something like mg2a or csh instead of GPL-compatible Vim and GNU Emacs and bash, respectively. NetBSD even uses its own homebrewed gzip.)

Complete thread:

• DosUSB licence and price - mr, 11.12.2008, 18:27 (Users)
  • DosUSB licence and price - rr, 11.12.2008, 22:11
    • DosUSB licence and price - RayeR, 12.12.2008, 09:48
      • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 12.12.2008, 13:20
        • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 12.12.2008, 22:55
          • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 13.12.2008, 11:58
            • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 13.12.2008, 22:31
              • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 14.12.2008, 17:12
                • DosUSB licence and price - mr, 14.12.2008, 19:02
                  • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 14.12.2008, 23:02
                    • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 15.12.2008, 00:11
                      • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 15.12.2008, 14:17
                        • DosUSB licence and price - Rugxulo, 15.12.2008, 18:23
                          • DosUSB licence and price - ecm, 15.12.2008, 20:03
                      • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 15.12.2008, 15:42
                    • DosUSB licence and price - mr, 15.12.2008, 01:31
                      • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 15.12.2008, 10:13
          • DosUSB licence and price - marcov, 14.12.2008, 16:55