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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable 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: 2003-08-15 15:01:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:59:48 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1060984866 29664 137.194.161.2 (15 Aug 2003 22:01:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:01:06 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Georg Bauhaus'" , Return-Path: X-Envelope-From: rleif@rleif.com X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5329 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcNjO6Y51fEHZiMLSgiWm2cAA5w68gAMtLxg X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41539 Date: 2003-08-15T14:59:48-07:00 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 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