Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 16:58:00 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: dyson@iquest.net, aturoff@isinet.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <4.1.19990302165551.00c88510@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199903022336.SAA66800@y.dyson.net> References: <4.1.19990302135424.00a10330@localhost>
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At 06:36 PM 3/2/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >People supplying GPLed works, can embargo giving >them to you, if you don't "pay them." What the >support companies can do is to keep from giving >you the externally available GPLed works, plus >their enhancements, without you giving them a >"consideration." In other words, they don't release the works to anyone unless SOMEONE pays them to do the work. Cute. >This blows away the notion of GPL software definitely >releasing ideas to the public, but trades it for >a misrepresentation of "support" actually being a sale. True. It's not a sale, because you can't "sell" the code. >That scheme mostly only works for big support >companies, at the expense of the small time developer. Gee, it seems as if this whole GPL thing is designed to hurt the little guys at the expense of the big guys. (Of course, Stallman, having claimed credit for Linux, now considers himself to be a Big Guy.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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