On 7 December 2012 15:00, Scott McGrath <[email protected]> wrote:>

> What most people think about when they hear about open source is code 
> released under variants of the GPL which require that code released to the 
> public built with GPL tools be made available for no more than the cost of 
> distribution ie you can charge for the cost of the optical disk and postage 
> but no more.
>
> Scott

Whether the source code is open has nothing to do with what the tool
chain that might be used.

People write open-source code for things like FPGAs which need
expensive proprietry tools to load into the FPGA.

You can write programs for MATLAB, Mathematica, Labview etc and
open-source them. The fact they need pretty expensive software to be
of any use is irrelevant.

Dave

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