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 06:00:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.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 08:59:53 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F3A3649.4010606@noplace.com> References: 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 13:00:08 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:41382 Date: 2003-08-13T13:00:08+00:00 List-Id: Probably, more accurately, they were not "defrauded" of anything. They voluntarily gave up rights to something that had potential value. When the actual value was realized (and who is going to dispute that there is "value" in Linux?) they were out in the cold by their own doing. Nobody put a gun to their head and made them do it. If they were "defrauded" at all, it was possibly in being "seduced" by the anti-capitalist rhetoric that occasionally surrounds the GPL and its more ardent adherents. MDC Preben Randhol wrote: > rleif wrote: > >>This is the typical argument for GPL, which I totally reject. By any >>economic standard, the developers were defrauded of the fruits of their >>labor. > > > No, just that the fruits /= money. > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================