On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:26:58PM -0500, Lacy Moore wrote: > I was completely against the dual licensing in the beginning. But now, I'm > leaning more towards understanding it and the importance of it, especially > as it related to US Patent laws. We're going to find that everything is > patented in the US. This is going to be the demise of open source in the > US. Only with indeminifcation clauses are we going to be able to use > software. We'll have to use software that already has already the patent > license agreements in place. This is where the dual licensing and ABE comes > in, in my opinion.
Your line of thinking reminds me of another doomsday scenario: http://lwn.net/Articles/162686/ Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario What if.. what if the linux kernel developers tomorrow accept that binary modules are OK and are essential for the progress of linux. a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven Strangely enough, this hasn't happened. Things have actually improved with the recent decelartions of AMD/ATI . If you are right, then the pressure will kill Asterisk. At least as a market leader. Not leave just an ABE. The ABE has no existance in the long run without the free version. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
