[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Attorney fees
From: |
John Hasler |
Subject: |
Re: Attorney fees |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:26:55 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
I wrote:
> The competitors you created in step one can create competing GPL
> versions with the same features.
David Kastrup writes:
> That's a nice theory. In practice, you can't hope to keep pace with the
> original authors in almost any case unless development died altogether or
> they left.
We are talking about the main line going closed-source. That provides both
motive and opportunity. Consider X.
> Many projects don't survive the original authors leaving (or even just
> aging) even without forking or competition.
If no one cares then it doesn't matter, does it? If Open Office went
closed-source many people would care, and many of them would be in a
position to do something about it. Again, consider X.
--
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
- Re: Attorney fees, (continued)
- Re: Attorney fees, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/11
- Re: Attorney fees, David Kastrup, 2008/07/11
- Re: Attorney fees, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, David Kastrup, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, David Kastrup, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, David Kastrup, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, John Hasler, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, David Kastrup, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees,
John Hasler <=
- Re: Attorney fees, David Kastrup, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, rjack, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, John Hasler, 2008/07/13
- Re: Attorney fees, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/14
- Re: Attorney fees, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/14
- Re: Attorney fees, John Hasler, 2008/07/14
- Re: Attorney fees, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/14
- Re: Attorney fees, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/14
- Re: Attorney fees, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/14