On Friday 23 February 2007 02:11, T.J. Duchene wrote: > The BSD crowd, though love to share ideas with everyone, as well as code > - much to their credit. There are those though (again, my opinion) who > abuse their work, by making derivatives solely proprietary. > > T.J. Is it really abuse? Is there an expectation that they give something back? And actually they technically are giving something back: their product/service is probably better because of the free access to free quality code. They might not be "giving" their product/service for free but just because Ford doesn't give me their cars doesn't mean the community is worse off because they sell their cars. (the specific anaoloy of cars is arguable on enviro and other points, its just a hypothetical example). If Microsoft is (or maybe its now "was") using BSD derived networking code, don't you think their networking code is probably better off and less likely to be vulnerable thus making the internet and websites and internet services you use that are running on or dependent on windows more reliable? You win, they win, we all win. :)