On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:41:13 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 11/9/2015 10:02 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: >> But in this case, the service is very tightly coupled with the >> software. I just don't see why the distinction matters. > > It matters because consumers as a rule don't buy annual support > contracts on commodity home routers.
No, but they buy commodity home routers, so loading them with GPL software is another way to "sell" the software. -- Robert Krawitz <r...@alum.mit.edu> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
