From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OpenBSd always charges nothing back, that's an ideology (that's the > way i see). The price of ideologies in a world like ours is expensive. > > For instance, i am tired of seeing big players using openssh and the > like. They give nothing back to OpenBSD. Probable the thrid BSD > license clause should be incorporated again. This would help than with > an argument for supporting openbsd. > > Or they advertises openbsd is being used by them, or they cash > something back. This way could be a means to estabilish a tradeoff for > them to decide.
And yet the meaning of free still escapes you. If you want these bastards to pay you for the software they use and make money off of, then you license it in such a way that makes them pay for it. Since the larger goal is to promote freedom in software usage (and by all definitions of the word), then this is obviously not the solution anyone wants. The BSD license doesn't make anyone give back, nor is it intended to. Charity, guilt, conscience, appreciation, or just because you're a good guy are all reasons to give back. Corporate America cares about none of these. It's a sad reality. But at this point I think its a safe bet that the OpenBSD project is not bent on world domination or getting rich and retiring to the Caymans on software sales. DS
