Many big companies have come to realize that more money is made in software then in hardware, if for no other reason then because the variables costs are *much* less.
So when they see free development potentially replacing their software divisions, big business cringes. Terry Fielder Network Engineer Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike > Brodbelt > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (no subject) > > > David A. Desrosiers wrote: > > > I asked some people about this at last year's Palmsource, > > specifically around borrowing code in POSE (which supports > the "pseudo" VFS > > api to write to these devices) in pilot-link, and I was > threatened with > > lawyers. They said that I am *NOT* allowed to "hijack" > Palm's code in my > > open source projects... and I reinforced my claim by > declaring, to the > > amazement of the person I spoke with (whose name escapes > me, but he was > > doing one of the talks) that POSE was GPL'd, as was > pilot-link, and I could > > use the code in pilot-link. > > Is this sort of idiocy representative of Palm's attitude? It really > amazes me - I've owned 3 different Palm handhelds, and would not have > bought any of them without the Linux support provided by > pilot-link. Are > they really so stupid that they can't see what you're doing > adds value > to their platform?? > > Mike. > > _______________________________________________ > Pilot-unix mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix > _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
