Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:08:06 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <4.1.19990223010632.00b594b0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199902230802.DAA02845@y.dyson.net> References: <4.1.19990222155920.0404e9d0@mail.lariat.org>
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At 03:02 AM 2/23/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >RMS's lawyers are likely bigger than a reasonable size of us could pool >together and afford to hire. Why? Does he have huge amounts of cash? If so, why does he live in a cubicle at MIT? >What *will* happen, is that times will be less fat in the future, than >they are now... People will end up doing less and less for free, and worry >more about feeding their kids, parents, and maybe themselves. At that >point, the gratis programming efforts will diminish, and the jobless >programmers (if it ever happens) will wish that there is more code under >the BSD license, and avoid anything that they can't profit on based upon >their skills... Either that, they'll be picking fruit in the fields... :-(. We'll see. I personally think that the legality of the GPL should be determined regardless. It's better when one knows what one is up against. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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