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-Thread: 103376,fc6b98caa14b4851 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? References: <452FC07B.4090202@obry.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:34:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.106.238 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1160822066 83.250.106.238 (Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:34:26 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:34:26 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6964 Date: 2006-10-14T10:34:26+00:00 List-Id: Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote: > Pascal Obry wrote: > >> millions of people are developing softwares with C/C++ using >> GCC/FSF without trouble :) > > Well, perhaps millions of people were freely using Linux without trouble until > SCO made some claims. Yes, SCO tried to persuade Gnu/Linux distributors into providing just the kind of indemnification that Samuel mentioned. And how successful were they? I seem to recall that they did manage to trick a couple end users into buying their license, but millions minus two is still millions. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu