16 Nov
2011
16 Nov
'11
10:11 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:53 PM, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:
@Martin The ripoff bit comes when they take open source (which was free) close it, add alittle of their own stuff that makes it less secure than anything else and flog it ...doesnt matter what price. Ontop of that compared to what they rip, they contribute very little back to open until pressure mounts on them
James, you may have a "moral" argument. However, the permissive nature of the FreeBsd license gives anyone (including apple) the right to modify and include code in proprietary software. IBM does similar stuff with the Apache license (though their contribution blow-back is more pro-active )