On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:42:21PM +0200, Francesco Tapparo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:07:07PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:21:14PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > > This is good, it's a pitty they need to be 'bought' by VaLinux to show their > > > interest for intelligent licenses. > > > > what is so intelligent in GPL? > > > > i think it is good if we can get a 'outside developer' friendly license. > > > > but if someone NEEDS to make a living developing good software, they > > should do so. but this is a good move by the developers to move it > > Are you saying that it is right to develop proprietary software to make a > living from it? > Then I cannot agree: proprietary licenses are not moral, in my opinion. > I'm not searching a polemics, but I must distantiate myself from your > opinions. > BTW: RedHat, VA etc. are a proof that it is possible to make money with non > proprietary software. neither VA nor RedHat have shown a profit yet. So it is not yet proven you can make money with non-proprietary software. It has been proven that you can get alot of people to invest in you, that beleive you will someday make tons of money. > > > to GPL after they have made enough money to cover the costs of making > > the software, i doubt it that any of the developers became rich by the > > small payment... > > > > Regards, Sami Haahtinen > > cheers > > -- > Francesco Tapparo | cesco@debian.org > fight for your software freedoms: www.fsf.org | tapparo@mat.unimi.it > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Erik Bernhardson journey@jps.net -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
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