Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> Good point. Microsoft doesn't want you to give *their* software away and 
> uses licenses to do that. They get called names and accused of 
> "predatory" tactics, while you're still free to use their tools to 
> develop your own things and keep the rights to your own work. But the 
> FSF is determined not that you don't give away their work, but that you 
> must give away *your*own* work, and that is somehow or other laudable? 
> That isn't "predatory"?

This is completely wrong and borderlines FUD. Please tell me how you can
take a part of say Microsoft Studio and make an Ada Studio without
paying a hell of a lot of bucks to Microsoft for it. Then compare it to
that you use some GPL software and make your Ada Studio from that. You
don't pay money for the software you took, no you pay source code!

But that said. Most libraries that you would like to use on Linux comes
in either LGPL, GMGPL or some other license which allows the development
of closed source commercial software. So when people are saying that you
*must* release software for Linux as GPL it is blatant ignorance.

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