Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:11:09 -0400 From: Jason Garman <garman@earthling.net> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kuehl@lgk.de, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, cjclark@home.com, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Richard Stallman came to town Message-ID: <19990514221109.F13575@fw.garman.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990514090801.jobaldwi@vt.edu>; from John Baldwin on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:08:01AM -0400 References: <19990514021120.A39374@holly.dyndns.org> <XFMail.990514090801.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:08:01AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > And you are confusing practical with technically possible. If one customer > takes your source and puts it up an ftp server and announces it to the world, > then you just lost a very good portion of your sales. > ... and this is somehow different from someone posting binaries on an ftp server and announcing it to the world? why does source suddenly make this so much more of a threat? if nothing more, the binaries would be more of a threat because they usually have a flashy installer utility and such included, while the straight source release probably won't. -- Jason Garman http://jasongarman.com/ Student, University of Maryland garman@earthling.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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