On Friday 02 Jan 2009 10:40:28 am Praveen A wrote: > > commercial (sell / trade) software subject to the terms of the gpl, > > just in case they were actually that dumb and could not read legal > > docs or the dictionary. > > Some terms are used anyway even though it is confusing or they know it > is not correct or we campaign not to use it, because that is so > common. intellectual property is one such example. commercial is > another. Why there is a controversy about Linux and GNU/Linux?
because there is a dispute about the meaning of the terms. There is no dispute about the meaning of the terms 'commercial' and 'proprietary'. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

