From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 8:57:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF1614DCC for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 08:57:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05655; Thu, 27 May 1999 09:57:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990527095144.00b7a320@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:55:29 -0600 To: Nathan Dorfman From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! Cc: unknown@riverstyx.net, spork , James Howard , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990526122522.A26225@rtfm.net> References: <4.2.0.37.19990520145111.044f4ab0@localhost> <4.2.0.37.19990519171814.045d9c80@localhost> <4.2.0.37.19990520145111.044f4ab0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:25 PM 5/26/99 -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote: >How do you figure? They're not giving away what you're trying to sell. >They're giving away their own code. Not so. It's a classic predatory pricing tactic: destroy the market for a business's product. Note also that those who publish under the GPL are not "giving away" their code; commercial developers can't incorporate it. Rather, they're giving free use of it to those developers' CUSTOMERS, which kills the market, while locking the developers themselves out. The EXPRESS purpose of this tactic is to kill commercial developers. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message