Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:01:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dyson@freebsd.org Cc: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, dennis@etinc.com, kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@freebsd.org, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, lm@relay.engr.SGI.COM, iain@sbs.de, sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: The real issue... Message-ID: <199612042101.OAA17202@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612040326.WAA02669@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Dec 3, 96 10:26:03 pm
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[ ... John's tools ... ] > BTW, if you pay me for them, I'll give'em to you. Say, they have taken > me 500Hrs to produce. Since I would be giving up a large part of my > ownership, I will ask for approx $50/Hr for my time. For $25K you can > have whatever software tools that I have, and that will allow me to invest in > a new Alpha system for the new super-VM system Alpha port for FreeBSD!!! > > Then, you can release them for public consumption... In essence, you will > have employed me to produce them... I think that could work, what do you > think? Would thy be "work for hire"? ...in other words, could he release them under GPL? 8-) 8-). BTW: do you have a system so you can run them and show what they output on Linux vs. FreeBSD on the same hardware? A differential in output would show that it might be worth scraping up $25k to get peoples grubby little hands on them. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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