From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 24 14: 6:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF7B11D5A for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09093; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199902240626.WAA09093@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass Cc: Narvi , Mark Ovens , dyson@iquest.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:01:50 MST." <4.1.19990223140048.04015de0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:26:21 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I mean if big companies can steal code from each other whats going to prevent something like Microsoft who at least in a couple of incidents have been proven in court "stealing" code . If only the GPL could license "thought:" or ideas we could actually move closer to "1984". Cheers, Amancio > At 10:54 PM 2/23/99 +0200, Narvi wrote: > > >c) What's the reason? MS can always hire n more programmers to write the > >exact same code without major delay. > > Not only that: They can clean-room it, which is easier if the code is > subtle. The GPL isn't any protection at all from a big company. It > only hurts SMALL independent developers. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message