on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:18:05PM +1300, Chris Cormack (chris@katipo.co.nz) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:12:02PM -0500, Maureen E. Duffy said: > > This is no big secret; I doubt it would be violating anybody's non > > disclosure agreements with microsoft. > > > > Also, as I understand, the BSD licensing scheme fully allows for people > > to profit from it in this way. So Microsoft has done no wrong with > > respects to using open source code from BSD. > > Selling software based on Open Source software is not the same as selling > Open Source software. It's not? I think I see where you're at (e.g.: a proprietized TCP/IP stack, or FTP client). But selling SFU including a GNU toolchains bundle certainly qualifies. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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