[GNUz] O/S compare

[Jim Cheetham]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:03:27PM +1300, Richard Tindall wrote:
> http://www.infohelp.co.nz/freenix1.html
> 
> Corrections, additions, comment.. most welcome.

I must admit to not being sure what "GNU/Linux" was supposed to be, nor
what you meant by "No/Yes" for "A brand?" ...

"Linux" (with or without the GNU prefix) is assuredly much more of a
brand than BSD - and is getting a lot of commercial development.

"freedom to close" seems to have been introduced specifically to
differentiate between BSD and Linux - both can suffer from the same
fate, which is effectively where the current maintainers suddenly refuse
to produce updates in a manner which you find useful. Neither of them
can withdraw materials that have already been published.

Yes, someone can take the current BSD and produce a closed version,
which cannot be done with Linux, but frankly who cares? It won't make
any difference to the world, who would just ignore the closed version.

Also, Windows cannot have the freedom to close if it's never been open
:-)

What does "freedom to legacy open" mean?

-jim