From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 28 7:16:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8B237B402 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 16gSIN-0005Pr-00; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:16:35 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1SFGZY75127; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:16:35 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:16:35 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: Benjamin Krueger , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First test of GPL in court Message-ID: <20020228151635.A74693@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20020227122820.A64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227142005.A16555@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020227132417.B64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227052928.L12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227133748.C64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227054428.M12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227150039.B16555@energyhq.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020227150039.B16555@energyhq.homeip.net>; from flynn@energyhq.homeip.net on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:00:39PM +0100 X-Scanner: exiscan *16gSIN-0005Pr-00*3UWN1szJf4g* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | FWIW he has never said you can't make profit selling GPL'ed software, | you can charge as much as you want for it, but I've never seen any | company making money on that, except a few Linux distribution vendors, | which anyway use code created by other people, so that doesn't really | count. I've been racking my brain for an example of something that technically *could* be done but for practical reasons *isn't* done in business. I can't think of any, but if I do, I'll post it. Maybe politics would be better, like in totalitarian countries where they say 'Of course any other party is free to run for office' but no one does, or has any chance of winning. RMS doesn't have to say you can't sell software, but he's essentially made it all but impossible from a business point of view. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message