Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

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

Good point. Microsoft doesn't want you to give *their* software away and 
uses licenses to do that. They get called names and accused of 
"predatory" tactics, while you're still free to use their tools to 
develop your own things and keep the rights to your own work. But the 
FSF is determined not that you don't give away their work, but that you 
must give away *your*own* work, and that is somehow or other laudable? 
That isn't "predatory"?

MDC

Robert C. Leif wrote:
> If one develops software that is specific for and based upon Linux, then one
> is obliged to use a GNU license. The GNU license does not permit one to stop
> others from giving away or selling one's work. This requirement is more
> stringent than anything Microsoft requires of developers that use Microsoft
> tools. Monopoly status is not limited to capitalists and tends to be
> exploited wherever it exists.
>  

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