OT: Why? (Score 1)

Seriously, why would you give anyone Linux?

Take a moment to compare the BSD and GPL licences and tell me which one makes more sense (warning: requires thinking). One of these licences lets a company freely use, improve, and re-release pieces of code into the public domain; the other requires you (as a company) to release your entire source base if you want to use one single function from an open source project. Guess which one of these licences has attracted a huge amount of outside development from companies like Apple, and guess which community has directly benefitted as a consequence.

It's no wonder a majority of BSD code looks like it was written by experienced programmers and most GPL code looks like it was written by (and oddly attracts most of its attention from) people who are still learning the fundamentals of programming at school.

Linux evangelists always blabber on about how much more "free" the GPL licence is. I don't buy it. I think the GPL is its own worst enemy.

Off topic I'm sure, but I just can't understand why anyone tries to push a pseudo-free platform like Linux when there are actually free platforms like FreeBSD that attract outside commercial support (effectively for free). Surely this model benefits everybody (unless you buy into Stallman's "everybody should be a GPL/Linux Nazi and LGPL/BSD/Microsoft/etc. is the root of all evil" propaganda).

Why don't you give away a FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD CD for Christmas (or preferably something else all together, it was a stupid idea in the first place)?