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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Open Source: in conflict with the development process in the Ada
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Date: 22 Apr 2002 06:42:04 -0700
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Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de> wrote in message news:<a9u6sm$24c$01$1@news.t-online.com>...
> Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> > "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com> writes:
> > 
> >> Under what law (in either Germany or the U.S.) would forbid a company
> >> from giving away a compiler?
> > 
> > Regulations against unfair competition.

Please go look up the notion of unfair competition. It is far far more
restrictive than you think. Don't guess about the law!

> But as long you don't gain a monopoly then of course you can give products 
> and services away for free in Germany. Even Microsoft does it :-) You can 
> buy cheap computer magazines with free Microsoft Visual C++ compilers on CD.

Indeed!