As I have said before, BSD was the unique Unix-like operative system with a ISC-style license. That's why, IMHO, companies invested in it.
On 3/24/06, Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Andris Delfino wrote: > > > Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't work that > > way. To develop an OS under a licence like the ISC has a big hole: > > funding. You can't just go: Hey, you use the implementation that I > > develop and give away for free, you should pay me!. If the pay you, > > OK, if the don't, well, that's OK too, and more realistic. > > Even if we were to accept your pessimistic worldview that organisational > gratitude is only a myth, then it is still in companies who use > OpenBSD or OpenSSH interest to contribute - funding committed and > internally-motivated developers to improve components of your product > is far less expensive than recruiting, training, paying and providing > office space for semi-motivated staff who crank out code of varying > quality for financial reward alone. > > BTW, your linkage between the license and a lack of funding is > specious, and there exist plenty of counter examples - including BSD > itself. > > -d
