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. :)