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by antonovka2
6030 days ago
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Colin's statement was in the context of the question of BSD vs. GPL licensing. RedHat's model it's clearly more effective than simple charity, but I don't see a difference between RedHat and any other OSS-reliant contributing vendor. As an example, Juniper funds FreeBSD development based on sales/support of their high-end networking products, and contributed the MIPS port included in FreeBSD 8: http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3... Blue Coat contributed the new L2/L3 SMP-improved rewrite: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3835746 The main difference is that these companies make their money by incorporating FreeBSD into their products, are not required to provide all the source to their products, and thus can contribute back improvements as they see fit. |
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