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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-23 10:55:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1030125340 24623 129.241.83.82 (23 Aug 2002 17:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:55:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28343 Date: 2002-08-23T17:55:40+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:52:52 -0700, Robert C. Leif wrote: > From: Bob Leif > To: Tom Moran et al. > The GNU approach is essentially monopolistic. The ultimate in unfair In what way? > competition is to make your product available for free. As opposed to > professional monopolists, such as Microsoft; the GNU approach instead of > maximizing return actually minimized it. Since it saves hardware vendors > considerable expense, the GNU approach is an excellent solution for > them. This is a very strange statement as Microsoft has released IE and other programs free of cost. Of course you must buy their dratted OS to use them. The GNU model is different. It says that the source code should be free (as in speech) for everyone. If you want to use some of the source code for your projects then you have to *pay* with your source code not money. > Again, I must emphasize that my comments are orthogonal to the question > of making the source code available. I am in favor of the customer > having the information included in the sources. However, I am totally > against anything that would decrease the value of intellectual property. ^^^^^ money value What will decrease it? You mean that people steal part of the code despite the license of it? Well industrial espionage has always been around and I guess Echelon is also used for this purpose. Besides you have reverse enginering etc... Some of the software patetens have the intellectual level of a 4 year old or perhaps it is that of an accountant? I don't see why people should have to pay just because some smock thought "Hey I can make a lot of money if I just can get a patent on this simple and trivial procedure" Preben Randhol