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Date:      Fri, 14 May 1999 02:11:20 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        cjclark@home.com, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, kuehl@lgk.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Richard Stallman came to town
Message-ID:  <19990514021120.A39374@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990512233737.0441e410@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 11:41:23PM -0600
References:  <19990512195044.B217@whizkidtech.net> <199905130247.WAA11499@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <4.2.0.37.19990512233737.0441e410@localhost>

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On Thu, May 13, 1999, Brett Glass wrote:
> It's called "getting paid." The GPLed product has poisoned the well;
> forget about being able to make money from such a product.

   You're confusing the two types of free, freedom of
speech-like, and zero-cost like (free speech and free beer).  You
can sell GPL'd code, but you have to distribute the source code
along with the product you're selling.

> --Brett Glass

-- 
Chris Costello                                <chris@calldei.com>
Avoid the Fortran arithmetic IF (or better yet, just avoid Fortran).


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