Bind v. TinyDNS
Bob Marcan
bob at interstudio.homeunix.net
Tue Jan 6 04:46:29 UTC 2004
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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