Re: Linus on commercial software

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@xxxxxxx>]

>>"Arun" == Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

 Arun> "I'll still pay for software," he declared. "I'll be less eager to pay
 Arun> for software that isn't open source."

 Arun> PS: He doesn't quite practice what he preaches - he uses GPL :)

        Amen to that. 

        I just have to say this about the BSD styyle of licence: I had
  a box on my desk till last month: it ran BSD software. But I had no
  access to the sources, and I had to wait for months to get action on
  bug reports, and upgrading the beastie cost several thousand dollars
  (real money, by any account). So much for the myth of ``free'' BSD
  software. 

        Thank the lord Linux is GPL'd.

        manoj
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