From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 10:18:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0988137B9C4 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:18:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from angussf@geoapps.rtd.com) Received: from geoapps.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id SAA17371 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:27:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from angussf@geoapps.rtd.com) Received: by geoapps.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Tue, 07 Mar 00 11:07:12 MST for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" To: misc@openbsd.org.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:48:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: (Fwd) open source article (fwd) Message-ID: <38C4DE77.2958.3ECE76E@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Something for the lists. Please don't answer to me, answer to the author ... Angus S-F ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date forwarded: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:56:22 -0700 Date sent: 6 Mar 2000 19:56:11 -0800 To: tfug@listserv.azstarnet.com Subject: open source article (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:49:53 -0700 From: TonStanco@aol.com To: tfug-request@listserv.azstarnet.com Subject: open source article Hi, I write an Internet Business Law column for Internet.com's Boardwatch magazine . I'm writing a series of articles on open source and I'd like to get community feedback for my next article dealing with the question below. Can you post this or email your group members? If they want to respond or comment they can do so by emailing me at . I'll review responses until March 31, 2000, the deadline for the article. QUESTION: I believe that Open Source is a very important freedom movement, because, like Harvard's Professor Lessig says, code is law, but with a non-human police force. With closed code, we'll all be prisoners in the very near future. So I believe that code MUST be open. But can anyone tell me why software can't be both open and sold like Windows? Why is it that software has to be basically given away if it's open? I'm not sure that anyone in Open Source has ever answered this question. It just seems to be assumed without any critical analysis. Why can't Open Source developers get a royalty percentage of the sale price just like writers, recording artists or movie actors, and the product sold just like Windows is through traditional channels, so that the developers get paid for their work? Thanks and best regards, Tony Stanco ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug@listserv.azstarnet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- End of forwarded message ------- --------------------------------------------------------- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApplications, Tucson, Arizona angussf@geoapps.com 1-520-323-9170 / fax 1-208-248-3124 --------------------------------------------------------- Proud user of Pegasus Mail, PM-Burst and Waffle --------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message