Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:21:57 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>, David Kelly <dkelly@mail.hiwaay.net>, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000821182156.A17647@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000821110604.04ba5920@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:11:53AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008201325420.1774-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net> <200008151718.e7FHIbb13082@mail.hiwaay.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008201325420.1774-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net> <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000821110604.04ba5920@localhost>
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| This is a big problem with the GPL. It doesn't allow commercial vendors to | make INCREMENTAL improvements on what is available for free and be compensated | for doing so. Instead, they must undertake the daunting task of a ground-up | reimplementation. And when they're done, who will pay for their work? The | market is decimated or gone altogether. i've heard that there are companies that are contracted to make improvements to GCC and other GPL tools and then are allowed to release the changes as open source. besides, there is no way of proving a given binary was based on a particular source code anyway, especially if it has been rearranged, right? jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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