Re: Request for comments - Microwindows

[Alex Holden]

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> Why give up your right to release source code?  Why not tell that vendor
> "I'll sign and NDA, but only with the condition that I can release my work
> open-source."  I have.

That's what we usually try. If you're only a small company making less
than a few thousand units, it often doesn't work. 
There's also the situation of large closed source software systems too-
for example you can license the code to decent voice recognition
software... You can't easily reverse engineer something like that- it's
easier to spend a few months or years writing it again. In the case of a
company, it's much cheaper to spend say $20000 licensing some closed
source code than it is to have a team of developers spend a year or so
rewriting it from scratch.

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