From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-13 05:41:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:41:39 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F3A3203.5010107@noplace.com> References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b8.3d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 13 Aug 2003 12:41:54 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41378 Date: 2003-08-13T12:41:54+00:00 List-Id: 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. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================