Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 11:31:17 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought] Message-ID: <335A60F5.57543530@konnections.com>
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Message-ID: <335A5CD0.706E5490@konnections.com> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 11:13:36 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought References: <199704191711.NAA20533@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joel Ray Holveck wrote: >> One of my favourite aspects of Walnut Creek is the assurance that I > >> could always get source to the programs. Is this no longer true? > > Huh? How did that question come out of this discussion? > > Well, if WC puts commercial software on a CD, then you wouldn't be > getting the source with it. Joel: Again, I think this is common. We don't get ALL of the source with current distributions. Everything that conforms to GPL offers the source, but not everything on WC/Linux distros complies with GPL. I think if you DON'T see `Free' (as in No Cost) packages in the distros (I'm speaking about Netscape and Mosaic) it's becuase the OWNERS want to control the distribution, not because the package compilers left them out due to GPL. PrimeTime Freeware includes a number of packages without source which are freely distributable and possibly Sales-worthy, but you won't get the code. Go back to Msrc's origianl point which, I believe, centered around `Popular, commercial' distributions. Meaning a non-hackers (in every sense) could pop the disc in and run a program, just like their Dos version. As a way to bring in users to FreeUnix installations and make those installations more attractive to the decision makers when picking new installations or extensions. We don't need the source, we need the committment and interest from the commercial developers. They will be scared even thinking their source might get out... -Mike
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