Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262176AbTFTC65 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:58:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262177AbTFTC64 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:58:56 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:63752 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262176AbTFTC64 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:58:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:12:17 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Larry McVoy , Miquel van Smoorenburg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Message-ID: <20030620001217.G6248@almesberger.net> References: <063301c32c47$ddc792d0$3f00a8c0@witbe> <1056027789.3ef1b48d3ea2e@support.tuxbox.dk> <03061908145500.25179@tabby> <20030619141443.GR29247@fs.tum.de> <20030619165916.GA14404@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030619165916.GA14404@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:59:16AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1174 Lines: 31 Larry McVoy wrote: > These discussions always make me wonder if the open source crowd is ever > going to realize it's reasonable to be friendly with commercial companies. The problem is that you can't trust a company. You may choose to trust people who control or shape a company, but they may lose that control, and then all bets are off. Something like the "KDE Free Qt Foundation" may work to protect the interests of both sides. It certainly looks fine to me, but maybe I'm just not crooked enough to see the loopholes. > 1. Give it away. > 2. ??? > 3. Make lots of money. 2. Give it away and still make lots of money. Proving this is left as an exercise to the reader ;-) - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/