Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I never said "parasite" did I? I said they got their R&D work done for 
free by a bunch of guys who voluntarily gave it away. I never disparaged 
RedHat and I don't say that they did anything wrong. The guys who wrote 
Linux put it out there under the GPL and RedHat simply took advantage of 
what was freely available. Perhaps the Linux authors *like* working for 
free and doing charity work for struggling young capitalists. That is 
their right. Viewed from that perspective, it might even have a certain 
nobility to it. But it sure didn't get them compensated for doing the 
R&D work that spawned a whole industry, did it?

MDC


Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> Well RedHat has released their products under GPL. They financed the GTK
> development f.ex. Owen Taylor is an employee of RedHat. Of course that
> is not the only product. So RedHat is far from any kind of parasite.
> 


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