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  • @Oisteink@feddit.nl
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    01 year ago

    Their own - did you read up on their status reports so far this year?

    What’s your take on freebsd and how development and the system is going. Are they ruined by exploitation?

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Given the long history of companies not upstreaming to BSD (WindRiver, PlayStation, Apple), I would say yea, it’s fairly obvious BSDs are exploited? Imagine for a moment if iOS was GPL.

      You might see short term gains because companies can innovate without giving back but yeah, definitely not the kind of stuff I want to support.

      • @Oisteink@feddit.nl
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        01 year ago

        Exploited? This is what the license is made for. You can take freebsd and do what you like - it’s free as in air, no strings attached other than the licence text.

        You might not understand why the authors use MIT-like licensing

          • @Oisteink@feddit.nl
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            11 year ago

            Insightful comment! This is what we need to build a good community!!

            If you don’t like MIT/BSD licensing it’s fine with me, but to claim those that use it is stupid or exploited because of their choices. These are people far smarter than you and capable of making their own choices.

            My understanding is that FreeBSD has no issues with Apple basing their OS on FreeBSD. But you guys probably know better

      • @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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        01 year ago

        Imagine for a moment if iOS was GPL.

        Ok, to be fair, they would probably have done the same like Google with Android.

        • @weker01@feddit.de
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          31 year ago

          Google and many other phone manufacturers contributed a lot to the upstream kernel because of android.