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#! rnews 2264 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 20:52:56 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 29 Message-ID: <32F69678.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5clgth$et2@qnx.com> <5cokjc$amq@web.nmti.com> <nVV8y0gTzX9Y091yn@ibm.net> <5ctv9v$ser@cynic.portal.ca> <D3P9y0gTzXhE091yn@ibm.net> <32F51B8F.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <O1o9y0gTzDkG091yn@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156157 comp.os.linux.networking:67268 comp.os.linux.setup:95496 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2242 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51890 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265678 Mouth of the South wrote: > > >so it is not always likely that the customer (who receives the > >source) is going to bother to redistribute it (it is a cost/benefit > >tradeoff for them.) The customer becomes the 'hoarder' then :-). > > But if the code is sufficiently worthwhile that more than a handful of > users obtain it, it won't take long for the newly derived source code to > make its first appearance and begin to circulate. > Maybe eventually -- isn't it sad that the IP owner who spent lots on his IP was hoodwinked into using the GPL anyway? > > Not only is GPL a self replicating machine, it's also a perpetual motion > machine. What a concept! > The virus/bacteria lives and many times the body dies due to side effects. We need to learn to bury such virus laden code (like we bury bodies :-)). Short-sightedly it might appear to be perpetual motion, but when owners of IP find out that their developers are infecting their IP with GPL, more and more will put a stop to the practice. John