Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:01:50 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: chat@freebsd.org, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Subject: Re: Market share and platform support Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990910100024.047a4ce0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990910160145.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost>
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At 04:01 PM 9/10/99 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 10-Sep-99 Brett Glass wrote: > > It wouldn't have to allow it. All WC would need to do is assert its legal > > right to its employees' work, and it would own code in the tree. And > > could license it however it wanted. > >Except a sizeable amount of code is contributed by other people who aren't >employees. You're right. But because Walnut Creek pays several employees to work full-time on FreeBSD, their contributions are substantial. Yank them -- or even some of them -- and production of an independent distribution becomes difficult or even infeasible. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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