Re: Upcoming time boundary events

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:07:36 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

Linux and FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD projects are really not that different.
 
They are not driven by a profit motive.

There are certainly groups in both camps that are driven by a profit
motive. You’ve heard this a thousand times before already: “Free software”
means “free as in freedom”, not “free as in beer”.

Linux is obviously much more widely used than FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD,
but I very much doubt that the FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD people envy Linux
- I believe they have different goals.

Yes, there is some Linux-envy. For example, while systemd itself is Linux-
only, some in the BSD camp have been working on a systemd-looklike called
“InitWare”. Also they see the need to move off X11 at some point and onto
Wayland. Linux containers are also another area which the BSDs cannot
quite match functionally. And there’s the network stack etc etc.

There are open source projects that started with a permissive license
and where the people and the company behind felt that they were being
treated unfairly (usually when the small company's cloud service could
not compete with Amazon/Microsoft/Google offering the same service using
the company's software) so they decided to change license.

Yes, we know. And we also hear complaints from some in the BSD camp about
their code being taken and included into GPL’d software, when they
explicitly adopt a licence that permits that.