From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 20:41:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E01614FC3 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 20:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@sd2.mailbank.com) Received: (qmail 8302 invoked from network); 28 May 1999 03:41:27 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 28 May 1999 03:41:27 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA05737; Thu, 27 May 1999 22:41:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199905280341.WAA05737@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! In-Reply-To: <19990527144911.A8231@rtfm.net> from Nathan Dorfman at "May 27, 99 02:49:12 pm" To: nathan@rtfm.net (Nathan Dorfman) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:41:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: brett@lariat.org, unknown@riverstyx.net, spork@super-g.com, howardjp@wam.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nathan Dorfman said: > > > > Note also that those who publish under the GPL are not "giving away" > > their code; commercial developers can't incorporate it. Rather, they're > > giving free use of it to those developers' CUSTOMERS, which kills the > > market, while locking the developers themselves out. The EXPRESS purpose > > of this tactic is to kill commercial developers. > > Why should the commercial developer be automagically entitled to > use the free software's code? The free software was not based on > the commercial code, it is original code. > There is no way that any developer should be forced to "automgically" give away their code. However, software is either free or not, and by restricting it's use so that it isn't free, then the software isn't free. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message