Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:26:21 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, dyson@iquest.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <199902240626.WAA09093@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:01:50 MST." <4.1.19990223140048.04015de0@mail.lariat.org>
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I mean if big companies can steal code from each other whats going to prevent something like Microsoft who at least in a couple of incidents have been proven in court "stealing" code . If only the GPL could license "thought:" or ideas we could actually move closer to "1984". Cheers, Amancio > At 10:54 PM 2/23/99 +0200, Narvi wrote: > > >c) What's the reason? MS can always hire n more programmers to write the > >exact same code without major delay. > > Not only that: They can clean-room it, which is easier if the code is > subtle. The GPL isn't any protection at all from a big company. It > only hurts SMALL independent developers. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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