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Subject: Re: The real issue...
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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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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