Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261497AbVBNRZ3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:25:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261496AbVBNRZ3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:25:29 -0500 Received: from ds01.webmacher.de ([213.239.192.226]:19908 "EHLO ds01.webmacher.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261497AbVBNRZO (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:25:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050214160027.GA8381@bitmover.com> References: <20050214020802.GA3047@bitmover.com> <200502141413.36066.mws@twisted-brains.org> <1108393425.8413.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050214160027.GA8381@bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML From: Marcin Dalecki Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:21:57 +0100 To: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1283 Lines: 30 On 2005-02-14, at 17:00, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:03:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> Can you see Ford Motors telling >> someone that you can't go work for GM if you drive a Ford? > > You paid for the Ford. Suppose Ford offered to give you the car but > said if you take it then you can't go work at GM because this car is > ahead of their technology. > > See the difference? It's one thing if you plunked your money down and > took the standard license or a negotiated license. You are getting > an expensive product and not paying any money for it. The payment is > the terms you agree to in the license and the obligations of those > terms. That payment may be unacceptable to you, which is your choice. More and more you are simply giving yourself the image of dishonesty. Yours supposed "license terms" sound somehow like the advertisement where you are supposed to be entitled for a "big prize", which you will be able to receive immediately after you order some additional crap for real money. - 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/