[Asterisk-Users] Re: Advice on OS Choice

[Kevin Walsh]

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:44:40 +0100, Kevin Walsh <kevin at cursor.biz> wrote:
> > GNU/Linux was licensed under a BSD-style license then Red Hat could
> > easily close the source - just as Apple did when they stole BSD code
> > to create "their" OS/X effort.
> >
> With all due respect, Kevin, you are talking out of your three letters.
>
I'm not sure which three letters you are talking about.  My first
thought was "arse", but that's clearly four letters so you can't
mean that.  "Mouth" is five letters long, so you can't mean that
either.  Perhaps you mean "ear".  Yes, that's probably it.

> 
> Apple has released their distro of BSD as open source under a BSD
> style license. You can download it, use it free of charge, modify it,
> redistribute it, charge for it if you want to ...
> 
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource
>
There's something I didn't know.  Thanks for pointing that out.
I'll take Apple off the "just like Apple and Microsoft" list then.

> 
> The companies that should be singled out for bashing are those who
> violate the license terms, like Microsoft, who are using the BSD
> TCP/IP stack in Windoze without attribution to Berkely University; and
> SCO, who have still been distributing their own Linux distro while at
> the same time claiming that the GPL was null and void.
> 
Yes.  I thought that Apple were in the same camp, so I apologise for
that.  The underlying points in my previous articles still stand - just
with Apple removed from the list.

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