On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, M. Drew Streib wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:10:34AM -0400, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > out of networked environments. If they succeed in promulgating these > > ideas, they'll hinder growth of networked systems. Perhaps a good way > > I could agree with you, except that networked systems can't really > be hindered too much now. They are pretty much a given.
Indeed. These ideas will severly hinder growth of software which is licensed under such terms. If Debian starts accepting such terms, it removes one of the primary reasons I choose it over other distributions (leaving the other reason, which is that it works well). Once I have to start examining the license of every piece of software I run on a server, I may as well just buy a proprietary system. At least there I know I won't be forced to distribute anything. -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/>
