From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/19
Date: 1998-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vhlgflfg.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87soglbhwu.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com
Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes:
> dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
> > We certainly have never "threatened to consider not doing
> > business with any one who starts giving out wavefront". That is
> > pure fantasy on the part of Ronald Cole.
>
> It's certinly ironic that the post you claim is "pure fantasy" is
> archived at dejanews... Took me all of 5 minutes to find, too.
Go to "power search". Select "English" for the Language,
"comp.lang.ada" as the Forum, "dewar" for the Author, and "May 1 1997"
for the Date. Then "wavefront" for Power Search and click on "Find".
The first article found says:
"If people started distributing wavefront versions freely, then w[e]
would probably reluctantly decide to stop making them available,
since it would be clear that their distribution was harmful. That
would be too bad for the cases where they really solve a problem. ...
"So if we did decide to curtail the distribution of wavefront
release because of problems with uncontrolled releases, then this
would be nothing like "refusing to do business with people" or
anything like that. it would just be a matter of balancing the needs
of customers in certain situations with other needs, something we
have to do all the time."
and
"There is, as Richard Kenner, points out a huge difference between
illegal and impolite or uncooperative. This distinction seems to be
lost on Ronald, but I think the rest of the community understands it."
Two points, here:
- it is certainly *not clear* that wide distribution of unsupported,
development releases (clearly marked as such) would be harmful.
And,
- being "impolite or uncooperative" (your words) to a client as a
result of their exercising their right under the GPL would,
presumably, be a breach of a support contract if there were no
other way to meet your guarantee of "immediate problem
resolution".
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole [this message]
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size geertbosch
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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1998-10-22 0:00 Gnat Free ? Van Snyder
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