25 Nov
2004
25 Nov
'04
8:20 p.m.
I read:
for the record, i sent a mail to rme as well and got
exactly the same
answer (in german) which i saw before here on this list.
I still don't see the point, the GPL _protects_ their IP rights, if I
was the evil corporation trying to rip off rme I could aswell rip the
thing apart and reverse engineer the code and the protocol, might still
be cheaper than doing the r&d work.
I guess it's those strange ideas sneaking in that
a) our shareholders/potential buyers won't pay for free code
b) we could sell the same hardware as three different boxes with closed drivers
c) what if those weird free software nerds come up with cooler stuff based
on our code ?
just my 0.02EUR
x
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