Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@acm.org>]

tmoran@bix.com wrote:
>   The source code is of course included (it pretty much has to be since
> it runs with multiple different compilers), but of course you mean you
> would insist on the right to sell or give away a copy to Marin.  So I
> could sell Marin, but not you, a copy, or, if it was "Open Source (tm)",
> I could sell you a copy, but Marin probably wouldn't buy one from me
> since he could get it for less from you.  Doesn't sound like such a good
> idea after all.

I'm not particularly hung up on "Open Source (tm)". For my needs, all I
really care about is that I can build a useful product from it and am
not going to have enormous problems giving the object code to my
customer. If the customer wants source, they'll pay us extra for that
and then all I need is the ability to transfer the required source for
the development tool (CLAW, or whatever libraries are needed to compile)
to them.

But I suppose that is going to depend on the job one is trying to do. If
I wanted to put the end product out on the net and Open Source my stuff,
then I guess it means I need Open Source for anything I use.

MDC
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