22 Jan
2005
22 Jan
'05
4:07 a.m.
On Saturday 22 January 2005 02:03, Lee Revell wrote:
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 01:25 +0100, Peter Brinkmann
wrote:
But still they somehow heard of opensource and they fear it could become a
trend in the future so it might be wise to tell about this one too.
They didn't need to tell about opensource. Even if the GPL applies (could be
they use *bsd) no one would notice unless they say it or someone pulishes
specs if the internal software interfaces...
Arnold
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That said, I did find this line about
"newly-developed proprietary
software" slightly objectionable because they seem to imply that
proprietary software is a mark of quality, or else they wouldn't have
mentioned this in a marketing document.
So? That just means that (surprise!) the
marketing people wrote that
press release and not the engineers. All marketing types think
proprietary==good.