On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > Speaking of malintent, it may be argued that the OSSAL encourages a > > corporation with a large amount of financial backing to issue a > > large "upgrade" to their or someone else's open source product and > > issuing it as closed source software for sale, thereby essentially > > doing a "bait and switch" tactic. But this is already allowable > > under BSD. No, the OSSAL tries to *prohibit* someone else from > > exercising the same freedoms over the code to create a GPL fork. > > But that's free enterprise and something that they can do... now they > have to maintain it, perform their own audits, etc.
I agree. I was merely reacting to your use of the word "malintent". > > Sean is, as far as I can tell, coming from a politically "rightist" > > perspective, whereas folks like RMS are coming from a "leftist" > > perspective. > > Please, please, please don't lump me in with the political right > wingers. My apologies for the lumping. I sincerely thought this would be a statement with which you would agree and which would help clarify things. > The extent of what I will say on politics is that I believe in market > driven economies and letting _open_ markets correct themselves. The > Open Source world is as good of an open market as I've ever seen. Great. As I said before, I am personally in favor of you joining this market, your chosen terms of trade in hand. Peace, Ihab -- Ihab A.B. Awad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Genetics Stanford University -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
