[ale] Are our Ethernet drivers in danger?

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Darin Lang wrote:
> 
> on 7/4/01 12:02 AM, Joseph A. Knapka at jknapka at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > Had
> > they been released under the GPL, no pharma research
> > firms would touch them, because they'd have to spend
> > millions of dollars to produce a saleable product,
> > which they would then be prohibited from selling
> > due to GPL provisions.
> 
> Bull.
> GPL does not prohibit sales or profit. Where did you get this extremely
> erroneous idea?

Sorry, should have said "gain a competitive advantage from",
which is after all what for-profits are all about; nothing
wrong with that. If I have to give away my hard work due
to GPL encumbrance, quite clearly the investment I've made
in that work cannot provide any competitive advantage to
me, except possibly in the very short term.

By the way, I'm not an idiot, please don't treat me
as such.

-- Joe Knapka
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