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Authored by: Tyro on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 09:00 PM EDT |
If they wanted to take software, they should have copied from BSD. I'm
reasonably sure the BSD mount command is nearly identical, at least
functionally, and copying and selling it in secret wouldn't violate the
license.
So if they didn't do it by accident, then someone bribed them. Even so, they'd
need to be remarkably stupid to take the bribe.
FOSS does mean what it says. It says the software is free and open. BSD puts
the emphasis on free, GPL puts the emphasis on open. Both are honest and up
front about what they mean by it, to the extent that if you don't know it's
because you closed your eyes and put your hands over your ears and went
"la-la-la". Lack of due diligence wouldn't properly cover it. It
would need to be willful, and even then I'd suspect you of lying.
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