Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265440AbTFZHD7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 03:03:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265441AbTFZHD7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 03:03:59 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:50610 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265440AbTFZHD6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 03:03:58 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Larry McVoy" , "David Lang" Cc: Subject: RE: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:18:08 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20030626010936.GA17417@work.bitmover.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 661 Lines: 17 One point probably worth making in this mess of discussion is that BSD-style open source software reduces the cost of developing and improves the quality of commercial software. As such, at least this portion of the open source movement contributes to commercial innovation. Or, to put it another way, if everything is open source, *all* you can sell (at least in terms of selling software) is innovation. DS - 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/