RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

There's a misunderstanding here alright.  You CANNOT sell GPL'd software.
Read up on what GNU is, Peter.

"Of course, anyone else can obtain your code for free once you give it back
to the community."  So explain again:  I write code, and I hafta give it
away free, and yet somebody WILL pay for it...??  (I've got the Brooklyn
Bridge and PLENTY of swampland, if that's the case...;-)

Red Hat and the others are not selling the code.  They're selling a set of
distribution CD's.  Again, look around the GNU link Stephane posted.

And oh yeah, the old You are NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE ANY MONEY if You WRITE
software, but making money on the secondary derivatives.. (like the few that
land great jobs, or board of Directors positions, or make speeches.. or the
trickle-down Ya might get for packaging, service, maintenance).. well thaz
okay...

So no wonder little TRULY innovative software gets written, but there are
plenty of folks making speeches on how great this is.



| -----Original Message-----
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| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter
| Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:30 PM
| To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
| Subject: Re: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???
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| I think there is a misunderstanding here. GPL'd software can be sold.
| The use of the software under the GPL means that you give back to the
| community anything you add to the code (source). Otherwise, you can sell
| it for whatever you want. For example: Red Hat, Suse, Debian, etc. Of
| course, anyone else can obtain your code for free once you give it back
| to the community. But you can make money by value add - packaging,
| service, maintenance.......