Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:36:59 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, aturoff@isinet.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <199903022336.SAA66800@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302135424.00a10330@localhost> from Brett Glass at "Mar 2, 99 01:54:59 pm"
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Brett Glass said: > At 03:41 PM 3/2/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > >Also, support firms often embargo GPLed works, > >unless you pay for the "support." > > What does this mean, exactly? It does not sound > good. > People supplying GPLed works, can embargo giving them to you, if you don't "pay them." What the support companies can do is to keep from giving you the externally available GPLed works, plus their enhancements, without you giving them a "consideration." This blows away the notion of GPL software definitely releasing ideas to the public, but trades it for a misrepresentation of "support" actually being a sale. That scheme mostly only works for big support companies, at the expense of the small time developer. -- 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-advocacy" in the body of the message
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