Bind v. TinyDNS

[Bob Marcan]

Andy Green wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 01:10, Mark Mielke wrote:
> 
>>>On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:33:07PM +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>No, but it's a place where one can educate the community about Free
>>>>Software alternatives over proprietary software, like DJB's.
>>>
>>>You mean, attempt to influence others into avoiding software based on your
>>>principles...
> 
> 
> I wasn't aware of qmail's license and I appreciate hearing about it.
> 
> Qmail's author is the one attaching strings to his software and so 
> 'influencing' people, Rui is right to point this out so people can make an 
> informed choice.
> 
> Seems to me there is no way to attach strings without seeming petty and 
> irritating, this is why we don't see big projects like Samba doing stuff like 
> 'everyone but SCO' even though they clearly loathe them.  The only effect of 
> the strings is to increase the number of people using alternatives, not to do 
> good in the world.
> 
> Likewise seems to me Fedora is right to avoid things with strings: after all 
> it is Fedora *Core* and there's nothing to stop external repositories 
> layering anything they like on top.
> 
> -Andy

As long the Postfix is included in FC, i don't bother if someone even 
put Exchange into the distribution ;-)

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