Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>Quoting Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>:
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>>>It's like saying most people who listen to Schoenberg come from the
>>>rock world rather than the classical music world, because there are so
>>>many more rock music listeners than classical music listeners.
>>>
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>>Well, perhaps it is, but as a matter of fact, most classical music
>>listeners DO come from rock music listeners, didn't you know that?
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>I doubt anyone jumps from Metallica to Schoenberg.  They may go to other,
>more accessible forms of classical music and gravitate from there.
>Similarly I doubt many people jump from Windows to FreeBSD, without
>some exposure to other forms of Unix (not necessarily Linux but these days
>that's the most likely candidate, and I'm not ignoring Mac OS X: most
>Mac OS X users I've met were either already familiar with Unix or hadn't
>bothered to learn anything about its Unix roots.)
>
>(That's an analogy, not exact.  I don't like Schoenberg and twelve-tone music
>myself, though I do like a lot of other "modern" 20th-century composers.)
>
>I think there's absolutely no question, except among hardened FreeBSD
>oldtimers who haven't seen the real world in years, that Linux offers a
>much lower entry barrier to users who've forgotten what a command line is,
>even in its crude MSDOS form.
>
>Rahul
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Thought you all might enjoy this (or get pissed).   Mozilla has started 
marking this thread as SPAM.   LOL.  I had nothing to do with it.

Rob.

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