[ANNOUNCE] Umbra role-playing game 0.2 pre-alpha

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Mon Apr 23 12:42:10 EDT 2001


>There are theoretical rights and there there is practical enforcement.  The
>latter takes a big bag of money.  If you let the cat out of the bag and give
>away source code to zillions of people, you are creating zillions of
>opportunities for somebody to rip you off.

I've seen it happen. A defense contractor, who shall remain nameless,
took GDMS (gnu database management system), modified it, incorporated
it wholesale in their product, and kept their source code to themselves.
I had a major shit-fit with the government program manager AND Mr. Stallman.
It really didn't win me any popularity points.

People can be real assholes.

C//




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