On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> At 11:59 AM 4/26/2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >Brett, why don't you retire to your padded cell before embarrasing yourself
> >further. You sound like a 1950's commie under the bed special. You damage
> >the BSD community with your behaviour.
>
> Sorry, Alan, but insults do not support your arguments or your cause.
>
> The simple fact is that hurting people who have done you no harm is unethical.
> This is what the GPL does; in fact, it is its explicit purpose. Therefore, the
> use or promotion of the GPL is unethical.
>
> I am sorry if you are unable to recognize this.
>
> --Brett Glass
I really havn't been following this thread and I don't want to sound
confrontational or anything but doesn't GPL make the market more service
oriented rather than product oriented? - since anyone can have that product -
not everyone can have the service or demeanor - which probably makes it so you
need good social skills to sell yourself but isn't that really what programming
is evolving into as well - a service rather than a creation of a product? -
especially when I think IT today - where you don't really think of a website as
a finished product but you hire in terms of a continuous service from a web
developer
What I mean is RedHat etc don't really make their money off the product sales
but of the support costs (inherintly why MS has problems with GPL - because
they aren't setup to support customers and have always been product oriented)
the money in the field really is more service oriented - like I know of
numerous companies supporting gpl projects to implement features they are
custom or what not - and in that reguard the GPL environment supports its own -
or paying for having installations of qmail/linux/etc etc is pretty common as a
tool for revenue
I guess that's more of a rant - and I understand how you can associate the GPL
as being anti product oriented - but then again would a service market be all
that bad?
Just my 2 cents
Eric
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