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- I'm a software engineer who has built web applications for Office Depot, Target, AIG (no I'm not proud of it) and many others. J. Stephens apparently has not worked in the private sector....
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- If I make a website that has a 10GB database and another with a 10,000GB database, the cost of the second is not 1000 times that of the first. The second site would perhaps cost more to host, but...
- Google may not provide monetary consideration to those who create the content that helps enable Google to generate revenue, but so what? The search engine-web publisher transaction is a purely...
- Adam -- Another very well written piece. When I get these by email, however, the author's name doesn't appear at the top, as it does on this page. I assume different authors on published in...
1 year ago
1 year ago
If you buy a copy of a GPL-licensed work, there's nothing that prevents you from deleting the installed software from your computer, putting the CD back in the box and selling it for 5$ at a yard sale.
What the GPL enables you to do is to make copies of the work and it limits how you may license derivative works.
Different issues there.
1 year ago
Your pointsmake goodsense, and it was quite obvious that Blafkins posst was really just smoke and mirrors--I start to wonder why they even bother.
It is clear that there is a lot of smoke being put out by the anti-free software camp, and sites such as Groklaw and posts such as this have done a good job at deflecting the dis-information campaign.
I'd like to see TLF cover the standards fight over the OOXML file format. That's getting interesting.