Re: bsd license question

[kbk@shore.net (Kurt B. Kaiser)]

Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pierre-yves.ritschard@oxalide.com> writes:

> We must keep in mind that at this point, the only loss the open source
> community would suffer is a team of good developpers, not the project
> in itself which would be forked and continued.

Right.  And probably under GPL ;-)  

> history (read: openssh and others) has proved that when an open
> source project goes closed source it generally gets much less
> attention and eventually is almost totally replaced by its open
> source counterpart.

But so much momentum and expertise is lost to the FOSS community!!

OTOH, the commercial source may reach far more users than the open
source project ever did, and that can be a public good.  e.g. OS X
(though that doesn't seem to have damaged the community too much
because Apple didn't buy out the NetBSD team, and there is Darwin.)

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KBK