Mark Norton wrote:
> Isn't this where the Open Source/GPL community feel-good factor falls
> apart?
> 
> Let's say I'm one of the developers working on some free software. It's
> open source, lots of people can/have contributed. But then the major
> user of this software gets sold for lots of money to a company, let's
> call them "EthicLog", whose reputation is mixed, at best, and pretty
> awful from my own experience.
> 
> Sure, the software is still open source and GPL but other people have
> benefitted at my expense. I've been sold down the river, I've been
> had.
> 
> Open Source/GPL may be a good idea, but not when some people profiteer
> on the back of other people's efforts.
> 
> That's the way it is, isn't it?

<sigh>

Slim Devices haven't sold the slimserver; they've sold the business that
makes Squeezeboxes and Transporters.

Would you feel the same way if Logitech bought out Roku?

R.

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