On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote: > Why give up your right to release source code? Why not tell that vendor > "I'll sign and NDA, but only with the condition that I can release my work > open-source." I have. That's what we usually try. If you're only a small company making less than a few thousand units, it often doesn't work. There's also the situation of large closed source software systems too- for example you can license the code to decent voice recognition software... You can't easily reverse engineer something like that- it's easier to spend a few months or years writing it again. In the case of a company, it's much cheaper to spend say $20000 licensing some closed source code than it is to have a team of developers spend a year or so rewriting it from scratch. --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. -------------- : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham : -------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ --------------------
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