On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:33:44PM -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
> What, Felix, (and you probably ought to respond offline, should you
> be so inclined, as this has precious little to do with qmail) do you
> suggest? How should the software "empires" of this world make their
> money if not by charging for their software and protecting the
> license (bought and paid for permission to use it) that goes along
> with it? I'm genuinely curious.
See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-3.html
and other similar writings by ESR and others involved in the open source
movement. The motives behind Open Source are not secret -- they are readily
available, all you need to do is look.
--Adam
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