Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:03:31 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, trevor@jpj.net (Trevor Johnson), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419200040.04595390@localhost> In-Reply-To: <15071.20833.602920.193381@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419144844.00bd9440@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419142203.046206d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419140150.045176b0@localhost> <200104191845.LAA17455@usr09.primenet.com> <15070.54826.847491.916792@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419144844.00bd9440@localhost>
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At 02:58 PM 4/19/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >An overwhelming majority are employed by small businesses. The tiny >minority that own them aren't relevant. Both are relevant. Many of those businesses are, literally, "Mom and Pop" businesses, most or all of whose employees are also owners. But regardless of whether or not an employee of a small softwre business is an owner, the GPL will hurt it by preventing reuse of code that's freely available to users. Because the market value of that code and its functionality is zero, these businesses may have to spend thousands of hours rewriting code that has zero market value before they can add value. This is one of many deleterious effects that the GPL has on innovation. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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