From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 19: 3:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA8937B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05694; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:03:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419200040.04595390@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:03:31 -0600 To: Mike Meyer From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Cc: Mike Meyer , Terry Lambert , trevor@jpj.net (Trevor Johnson), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15071.20833.602920.193381@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419144844.00bd9440@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419142203.046206d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419140150.045176b0@localhost> <200104191845.LAA17455@usr09.primenet.com> <15070.54826.847491.916792@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419144844.00bd9440@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:58 PM 4/19/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >An overwhelming majority are employed by small businesses. The tiny >minority that own them aren't relevant. Both are relevant. Many of those businesses are, literally, "Mom and Pop" businesses, most or all of whose employees are also owners. But regardless of whether or not an employee of a small softwre business is an owner, the GPL will hurt it by preventing reuse of code that's freely available to users. Because the market value of that code and its functionality is zero, these businesses may have to spend thousands of hours rewriting code that has zero market value before they can add value. This is one of many deleterious effects that the GPL has on innovation. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message