From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 14 6: 8:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAEA14D84 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 06:08:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18422; Fri, 14 May 1999 09:08:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA31919; Fri, 14 May 1999 09:08:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990514021120.A39374@holly.dyndns.org> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:08:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Chris Costello Subject: Re: Richard Stallman came to town Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kuehl@lgk.de, "G. Adam Stanislav" , cjclark@home.com, Brett Glass Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14-May-99 Chris Costello wrote: > 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. And you are confusing practical with technically possible. If one customer takes your source and puts it up an ftp server and announces it to the world, then you just lost a very good portion of your sales. >> --Brett Glass > > -- > Chris Costello > Avoid the Fortran arithmetic IF (or better yet, just avoid Fortran). --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message