From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 14 19:11:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wedgie.org (pm510-11.dialip.mich.net [131.118.249.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8B315469 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 19:11:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgarman@wedgie.org) Received: by wedgie.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F29F1FF01; Fri, 14 May 1999 22:11:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:11:09 -0400 From: Jason Garman To: John Baldwin Cc: Chris Costello , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kuehl@lgk.de, "G. Adam Stanislav" , cjclark@home.com, Brett Glass Subject: Re: Richard Stallman came to town Message-ID: <19990514221109.F13575@fw.garman.net> Reply-To: garman@earthling.net References: <19990514021120.A39374@holly.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from John Baldwin on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:08:01AM -0400 X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (1% of Full) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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