Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:39:12 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <399E0F70.ACD130B0@mail.ptd.net> References: <200008190131.SAA00239@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Management has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. If they give > > away their source, and some other company makes a killing with it, > > management has breached that duty. > > Through malfeasance, by ignoring the market for the code themselves. Not necessarily malfeasance. They could simply be in error about the potential profit to be had from the source. > > But if they use the GPL, it is very unlikely that any other > > company will make that killing, and management will be in the clear. > > No. They will still be guilty of malfeasance. But they will also > be guilty of criminal fraud, in that they covered up their malfeasance. Fraud means obtaining title to property by false pretences; it has nothing to do with the hypothetical under discussion. Cover up implies something done after an act to hide it; that also has nothing to do with the hypothetical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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