RE: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

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.
 
Bob Leif

Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
Email rleif@rleif.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Georg Bauhaus [mailto:sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de] 
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 2:48 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

Robert C. Leif <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:
: 
: I believe that many of the necessary real-time Ada components have been
: created to run under Linux. If they run under other POSIX operating
systems,
: the authors of the Ada components could be able to escape from the Free
: Software monopolistic practice of forcing one to use their copyleft.

So you, as a scientist, say that a forcing license establishes
enough definitional grounds to warrant the characterisation of
an organisation as having a "monopolistic practice"?
If so then how does any organisation with a forcing license
fail to have monopolistic practice?

Sometimes even Ph.D.s seem to deviate from the very first principles
of conceptual soundness. Shouldn't you know better after a larger
number of publications?


Georg