From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 18 21:43:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20DDC37B43C for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28142 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2000 04:43:50 -0000 Received: from du26.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.26) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 19 Aug 2000 04:43:50 -0000 Message-ID: <399E0F70.ACD130B0@mail.ptd.net> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:39:12 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Brett Glass , Rahul Siddharthan , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site References: <200008190131.SAA00239@usr08.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Management has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. If they give > > away their source, and some other company makes a killing with it, > > management has breached that duty. > > Through malfeasance, by ignoring the market for the code themselves. Not necessarily malfeasance. They could simply be in error about the potential profit to be had from the source. > > But if they use the GPL, it is very unlikely that any other > > company will make that killing, and management will be in the clear. > > No. They will still be guilty of malfeasance. But they will also > be guilty of criminal fraud, in that they covered up their malfeasance. Fraud means obtaining title to property by false pretences; it has nothing to do with the hypothetical under discussion. Cover up implies something done after an act to hide it; that also has nothing to do with the hypothetical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message