[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/31/2005 01:14:57 PM:
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> And I daresay that this _can_ be an attractive thing to businesses,
> supposing they offer a "production release," gratis.
>
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True, as long as there is no license clause for future revocation of the
free license at the vendor's whim. Kinda like the M$ clause in their
*open* XML standard. Also, without source, deployments still are under
threat of discontinued support. Kinda like Solaris 9 when Sun said they
didn't know whether the x86 version would be released.
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