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wmf
on April 21, 2012
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GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever
Didn't BSDI hire many of the developers and then contribute nothing back? I'd think that was a pretty serious cause as well.
protomyth
on April 22, 2012
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No - "While several Berkeley developers were involved in the formation of BSDI in 1990-91, none left the University of California to join Berkeley Software Design, Inc. at the outset." -
http://icims.csl.uiuc.edu/~lheal/doc/dgp/chapter16.html
also
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaini...
The lawsuit was the big problem.
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