James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu <at> unlimitedmail.org> writes: > > >> What you're saying here is not a secret, in fact these are all more or >> less well-known facts. Yes, they probably did violate some open source >> license. However, I don't see how having had closed source products >> would have prevented them from doing what they wanted to do anyway. >> And furthermore, what does all this have to do with "making money with >> open source"? > > > I just do not see the harm in letting a small (sub 1 million dollar > company) build a product and not provide any details or what they did or > how they did it.
Why should they be allowed to gain a profit from something, that the FLOSS community made, without giving anything back at all (and if it is just source code in an uncommented/undocumented fashion)? > In the end, their success is more likely related Why should somebody care, if they are successful? > The GPL goes a long way to discouraging/preventing many of the serfs > from ever trying.... IMHO. I believe that the GPL is the spawn of satan. Absolutely disagree. I think the GPL is good the way it is. > I think the 'serfs' (the greater gentoo community) would be better > off with a BSD style license related to Gentoo technologies and > still use GPL software, as the individual chooses. I don't think so. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
