Re: [ossig] Copyright Laws

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> May I point your attention to the tiny wiggly arms ?

what are they wiggling abou ? :)

> Who ships the majority of servers these days ? I never understood this,
> btw., and this is no zealotery. I can imagine people using XP, and some

maybe i wasnt clear. the higher margins when it comes to servers are your
rdbms and big iron type back end servers, not your run of the mill file
share and microsoft exchange servers.

> They've learned their lesson, I'm afraid. They have a costly foot in

i'm not too sure. jumping into every thing which is new is not a sign that
they will succeed at it.

> Which is what I argued for; didn't I ?? Read your own lines above and
> don't confound 'scratch' and 'glue'.

no, i'm not. we're talking of innovation/invention here, arent we ? so,
even bringing together existing modular pieces to create something not
done before is innovation/invention. isnt this then a new product ?

> People actually should do that on Linux and get the damn BSDs together.

which linux ? there're tens of them at last count.

> The security of OpenBSD; its advanced PF and stuff; FreeBSDs scalability
> and memory management and NetBSDs portability.

the BSDs are together, with each strain engineered for it's speciality, as
you've mentioned above. code base, architecture and the like are similar
enough that interop is not really a problem. the problem is more in the
politics of the whole thing rather than anything else. theo de raadt comes
to mind.

> Not so sure. Maybe academically, but doesn't bring us much further with
> respect to the underlying problem(s); inside and outside the confines of
> this country with respect to Computer Science and IT. Eh, copyright(s)
> included.

right, so how do we fix those problems realistically ?

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