From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 15:55:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE72337BB48 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r14.bfm.org [216.127.220.110]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:55:38 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000417175400.00891150@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:54:00 -0500 To: Brett Glass From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: M$ anti-trust case Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000417163647.03e1c5b0@localhost> References: <20000417183905.D27040@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001201bfa891$92066480$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3.0.6.32.20000417104107.0088ee50@mail85.pair.com> <001201bfa891$92066480$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 16:37 17-04-2000 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >Hurting developers hurts consumers. This is why the GPL hurts consumers >as well. Agreed. Two sides of the same coin. And a double jeopardy. If you produce quality commercial software, M$ will undercut you; If you produce quality shareware, some kid will steal your idea and produce a gpled version. Either way the consumer seems to save money, but loses big. Cheers, Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message