Posted on 09/04/2007 10:47:50 AM PDT by N3WBI3
GPLv3 will help FreeBSD take some users away from Linux, according to the founder and vice president of The FreeBSD Foundation.
Writing in the FreeBSD Foundation's August newsletter, Justin T. Gibbs said "GPLv3 is a critical concern for many current commercial users of open source software.
"Against the backdrop of GPLv3, the stark difference between the BSD licensing philosophy and that of the Free Software Foundation are only too clear," he said.
One difference Gibbs saw was future-proofing the licences.
"A GPL proponent might argue that a licence for free software must be upgraded periodically since we cannot anticipate what new use models for free software might be developed that restrict freedom. The BSD licence is as permissive as possible exactly because we cannot predict the future or to what beneficial purpose (commercial or otherwise) our software will be used," said Gibbs.
Citing high support costs and an inability to guarantee adherence to specification for licensing, Gibbs said "now was perfect time to clarify the differences [between GPLv3 and BSD licenses] and start to engage with large current and potential users of open source software to understand their use models and how the GPLv3 might impact them".
Gibbs said the FreeBSD Foundation will provide an effective response to GPLv3 and he implored the community to make the most of the opportunity it provided.
Here’s some more real world stats for you, just out today:
http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201804059
More than 90% of the responding CIOs in the survey who are not current Linux users said they would not deploy the open-source operating system in their servers in this calendar year. That number is up from the 87% of those polled who answered in the same way in January of this year.
Windows boxes continue to dominate the overall deployed base of servers used by the CIOs polled in the survey, with an 80% market share, up from 62% in January.
Dude,
I dont really care if what the Lnux market share is, anything over 5% on the servers will keep it alive and healthy (Just ask AIX).
but if we want to look at the numbers
“More than 90% of the responding CIOs in the survey who are not current Linux users “
ok how big is the sample and who are they?
“That number is up from the 87% of those polled who answered in the same way in January of this year.”
If its the same guys from January of course its lower and that could be *good* news. Given that some of the 13% from January probably did deploy Linux there are going to be fewer folks who ‘dont have linux deployed’ and those that are left had already planned not to. I would be very worried if the numbers had been the same because that would indicate that the 13% who had not ruled it out did not do it.
and lets not forget this:
“The market share of Unix machines dropped from 28% to 13% in the same period, largely as a result of companies moving from Unix to Linux.”
Something does not add up here Windows market share goes up 18%, unix goes doen 15% and somehow they are saying its folks going to Linux?
Please buy and read the statistics book..
LOL you’re obviously not satisfied with Linux’s existing installed base percentage, which has leveled if not falling as of late, else you wouldn’t still be going around frantically pushing it on everyone like you do. FYI it’s not working though, people have finally started catching on that Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing and that Richard Stallman is a green party moonbat that can throw a monkey wrench in your operation anytime he wants just like he’s done with GPL3. You used to admit that up front, [X] Stallman is a leftist remember, but now you try to hide and cover it all up, this other guy acting like BSD people like Stallman even, hilarious!
Im going to avoid bothering to acknowledge the tone of your post and address only things relevant to the discussion at hand. In other words I wont be taken off topic by the manner you usually use. You can outright lie about positions I hold all you want, I give you cart blanch to blather to your hearts content.
So how many more hours till your next Linux pimping thread? Or is it merely minutes away? Better start re-doubling your efforts, stalling out at 1% of active web users gives the impression it isn’t working.
Probabaly a little more than half the threads I put up are by listener request (i.e. Freepmail) This one was such a thread on which my first comment was
“If Linux goes GPL3 I would give serious pause in using it as an embedded OS”
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When I put the next OSS thread up (Keep in mind you have started flame wars on FireFox related threads, you know Firefox the open source app that does not use GPL?) if you can talk about the thread subject rather than start character assassination I look forward to the discussion.
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