Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released
by hd4 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @08:38AM
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They have some obligation to answer to their customers (yes I know for private corporations the shareholder is ultimately the authority but shareholders exist because there are customers not the other way around) so we, as their customers should call them out on it.
Even though other people have made the point we can't state enough times that these corporations have more of a duty to donate seeing as they extract far more value.
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Given the license gives them complete freedom of what the do with FreeBSD, I wouldn't agree they have any duty. I would agree it would be nice, for sure it would be welcome, but nice & welcome doesn't constitute any duties. Just imagine under how huge pressure and scrutiny ALL linux distros, projects and companies should be for using OpenSSH _everywhere_ and not donating a penny to OpenSSH/OpenBSD projects. But the license allows it and that's the point and spirit of Open Source in eyes of BSD.