Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:50:22 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: brett@lariat.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Source isolated at COMDEX (Was: About: FreeBSD at COMDEX) Message-ID: <199911211850.MAA19102@free.pcs> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19991121182200$c1c5@fish.pcs> References: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/199911211802.SAA08306@mx1.xcelcom.com>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19991121182200$c1c5@fish.pcs> you write: >This agenda is not lost on businesspeople who are considering the use >of open source software. In fact, many do not realize that there are open >source solutions (such as FreeBSD) which are NOT licensed under the GPL's >"poison pill" license, and so reject open source altogether. Actually, you are right, the GPL is not lost on business people. Sad to say, of them actually choose to use GPL'd software as a competitive weapon -- their theory is that by releasing GPL software, they kill the competition, since the competition won't be able to "privately leverage" the changes. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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