So normally I don't get involved in OS religious wars, but disinformation (and hypocrisy,) bug me in particular.
Wasabi Systems makes various embedded tools and devices using NetBSD, which is fine by me, I use free and openBSD on several systems myself. What got me was these 2 pages:
This one, which trashes "Linux's GPL (General Public License)," and how dangerous it is to use. I noticed that they spin this statement to make it sound like the GPL is a Linux product.
I chalked this up to ignorance, until I saw a link on their site for WasabiGNU, their "certified and optimized version of the GNU toolchain." I didn't know there was a GNU certification process, but there might be.
I can see their logic if you're worrying about the GPL licenses forcing you to open source your code (although no one forces you to use GPL software,) and that the GPL products they tout can be used to develop closed-source software. It just bugs me that they're spreading the FUD with one hand, and benefitting from GNU/GPL'd codewith the other.
Wasabi Systems makes various embedded tools and devices using NetBSD, which is fine by me, I use free and openBSD on several systems myself. What got me was these 2 pages:
This one, which trashes "Linux's GPL (General Public License)," and how dangerous it is to use. I noticed that they spin this statement to make it sound like the GPL is a Linux product.
I chalked this up to ignorance, until I saw a link on their site for WasabiGNU, their "certified and optimized version of the GNU toolchain." I didn't know there was a GNU certification process, but there might be.
I can see their logic if you're worrying about the GPL licenses forcing you to open source your code (although no one forces you to use GPL software,) and that the GPL products they tout can be used to develop closed-source software. It just bugs me that they're spreading the FUD with one hand, and benefitting from GNU/GPL'd codewith the other.
