> Disclaimer and note: I work for Borland, for the 1 person here who doesn't > know me, but I'm a Linux, Delphi and Java nut (I'd never again put an NT box > on the 'net). I like Windows 2000 for desktop use, tho. i'm 1 person here who doesn't know you, but even i know you work for borland <g> > I think, from the current state of all Linux and OSS related companies, > outside of RedHat and IBM, that model for software that needs to bring some > revenue in DOES NOT WORK. Sorry, but software engineers need to be paid. > They like living in houses, eating, spending time with their families etc. sure - ok. but not all software developed is software for sale. a lot of software is written for internal use by developers on staff (or hired from outside) and not sold as a product - just used internally. Delphi has always been great for this kind of stuff - and IMO having Kylix as an option means Linux will now be in the running as the platform of choice for internal apps where it might not have been otherwise. That means more commercial sites running Linux. And that's good for everyone - including commercial developers writing software for sale under the no-nonsense licence because it expands the potential market for their products. AFAIK the GPL wouldn't interfere with the development of internal tools provided they weren't "distributed". This is a legal technicality here that I wonder about (and hope someone here knows about): The GPL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html refers to "you" the licencee and what "you" can/can't do under terms of the GPL. In the case of a "company" my understanding is that it (as a "juristic person") is the licencee and consequently using the software inside the company wouldn't be "giving it to another person" so the GPL stuff wouldn't get triggered. There is a note sort of related to this issue on the Borland site http://www.borland.com/kylix/k1/opedfaqs.html where they talk about "... if you have a team of 5 programmers working on a commercial product ...". I wonder will this same note apply if the team of 5 programmers is working on a system the company will use commercially (but internally) to make widgets? How about if the company hires the team of 5 programmers? yeah i know - off topic - should crosspost to alt.programming.legalbs <g> Anyway FWIW i'm glad to see this gutsy move by Borland. -ns --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
