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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



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