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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 2003-08-10 00:10:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:10:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.228.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1060499429 162.84.228.200 (Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:10:29 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:10:29 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41295 Date: 2003-08-10T07:10:29+00:00 List-Id: rleif wrote: > Yes, and my paper showing how the developers were ripped off when RedHat > went public is also posted on www.newportinstruments.com. This is utter nonsense. Those developers released their code under the GPL for years before RedHat even existed. When RedHat went public they decided to try to share some money with the developers, even though they were under no obligation to do so. RedHat distributes GPLed software, and tries to make money by doing this. Anyone else may try to do the same, including any of the developers of the distributed software. ACT continues to develop GNAT and associated technology, including brand new projects such as GPS, under the GPL. Apparently they don't feel ripped off. RedHat itself contributes back to the community. Several of its employees are on the GCC steering committee, actively working on improving the compilers. The GNAT Ada technology is now a public part of this. RedHat is working with the GPL in exactly the way it was intended to work. Any developer who feels ripped off has only himself to blame for not understanding what releasing under the GPL means.