From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 14:56: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cjc26.resnet.cornell.edu (CJC26.RESNET.CORNELL.EDU [128.253.234.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE43814FC1 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 14:56:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc26@cornell.edu) Received: from localhost (cjc26@localhost) by cjc26.resnet.cornell.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA09529 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:57:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc26@cornell.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: cjc26.resnet.cornell.edu: cjc26 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:57:09 +0000 (GMT) From: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality X-Sender: cjc26@cjc26.resnet.cornell.edu To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL alternatives In-Reply-To: <19990520155519.B235@whizkidtech.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 20 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > I have no problem with that. What I would have a serious problem with is if, > for example, someone walked to a computer business and asked how he could > create counters for his web site, and the business would offer to sell him > a diskette with my Graphic Counter Language for $249 (or any amount) and > say, "This is what you need. Just type 'make install' then visit this web > page to learn how to use it." If that customer can't be bothered to do a simple web search first to find out what's out there and what's freely available, then he or she deserves to be screwed over. Caveat emptor. Cliff Crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ -><- i l i k e o a t m e a l )O( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message