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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 09:55:29 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
Cc:        unknown@riverstyx.net, spork <spork@super-g.com>, James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS!
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.37.19990527095144.00b7a320@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19990526122522.A26225@rtfm.net>
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At 12:25 PM 5/26/99 -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote:

 >How do you figure? They're not giving away what you're trying to sell.
>They're giving away their own code. 

Not so. It's a classic predatory pricing tactic: destroy the market for
a business's product. 

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.

--Brett Glass








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