Re: [tlug] [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

["david.blomberg@example.com" <david.blomberg@example.com>]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:08 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> david.blomberg@example.com writes:
> 
>  > Why give away code to others and allow them to make huge money from
>  > your generosity-without some code turned back over?)
> 
> Because if you are prepared to demand "some code turned back over",
> then it's not "generosity", it's a discriminatory demand for payment
> in kind.
No it is the golden rule (I am not religious but do believe in the
golden rule).  I do not "demand anything". All I say is, I gave the code
away if you use it I expect you to do the same.  Charge for it if you
like but no fair taking my freebies without playing by the sames rules.
(we are talking about end products here not libraries right--I think I
would only release libraries under LGPL in which case fine use them as
the base and keep what you want)
> 
> Consider also why companies like IBM and Sun use copyleft.  They may
> very well be partly altruistic in releasing open source, but the
> business logic for copyleft is clear: it's not to ensure that we can
> have their code and its derivatives unto the Nth generation; it's to
> ensure that anything we produce that can drive a silver stake into the
> heart of the Redmond werewolf will not be available for that werewolf
> to take use under its current business model.
The same redmond company has been fairly famous in the past for taking
BSD licensed code and including it in its own OS.  I never saw any
updates from them in BSD though.

the other dave