BSD is still too restrictive, Haiku is released under the MIT license! ;) But does the license under which code is released really say how cyberpunk it is? I mean alright it makes sense for closed source stuff, but as long as you have access to the source and you can do any changes you wish, nothing forces you to give your changes back as long as you keep it to yourself. I love all these Freesoftware, Open-source projects the same although I can objectively say that the Linux kernel offers an enormous amount of features not present in other operating system kernels. Now the question is if you really need these functionalities for yourself ;)
>We can't even reach a consensus on the most fundamental elements of the genre anymore.
Could we ever :P
It seems to me cyberpunk talk would naturally lend itself more towards the kind of ground covered in The Cybercultures Reader In that it's dealing with the theory of the internet (and specifically if we want to get into the punk bit of cyberpunk, how the internet shapes mass culture and the individual, and vise versa, in the socially liberal hyper-individualist global west) ... which is where cyberpunk talk has real world applications and potentially something important to say, that isn't already better covered under other rubics.