Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:46:23 -0500, "Aryeh M. Friedman"
<aryeh.friedman_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I decided to elaborate slightly on the previous reply....
> 
> One thing that FOSS (BSD or GPL) has historical had issues doing
> cleanly is seperating free software from free beer.   The first being
> a very important goal and the second a unfair side effect of thinking
> that open source by definition means free use of the products.   Yes
> the source should be avaible to everyone but as far I can tell that
> does not automatically and should not translate into not having some
> responibility to the community that created the project in the first
> place.... my approach (along with 3 other small software vendors) is
> to have a requirement to contribute back to the community in some form
> (in work or help support those doing the work), namely it is free
> software but not free beer.
>
Please stop this. FreeBSD is BSD licenced and if you want to start another
holy war about wether this is good or bad, do it on freebsd-chat. Or even
better, stop here, right now.
This really has nothing to do with the thread itself and with this mailing
list in special.

Thanks.

./Marian