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> proprietary interests can take free code without giving anything back. As long as the author is ok with that, and proprietary interests are happy with mergin
by olgeni 14y ago
> proprietary interests can take free code without giving anything back.
As long as the author is ok with that, and proprietary interests are happy with merging their own changes on each upstream release, I don't see any wounds.
Also, sometimes it's better for proprietary interests to lift (for example) a working TCP/IP implementation, rather than implementing their own poor thing and put it on the 'net for everybody else to deal with.
- icebraining 14y agoAlso, sometimes it's better for proprietary interests to lift (for example) a working TCP/IP implementation, rather than implementing their own poor thing and put it on the 'net for everybody else to deal with. rms agrees with you: http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3 http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3