Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 29, 2003 12:24 AM
"BTW, the GPL does protect Intellectual Property. It just doesn't allow corporations to PIRATE that technology from smaller developers - the people who wrote the code in the first place. "
Thats amazingly naive<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
Notice how the people making the software that Redhat and IBM uses in their businesses are NOT paid. Not paid in any way, not for man-hours, not for products, not for services, not for support, not for anything. IBM and Redhats "suits" investors are the ones in the end making money.
The GPL has turned programmers into big coorporations unpaid slaves. There are a handfull of exceptions but generally thats the rule.
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Re:Make Money?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 29, 2003 12:24 AMThats amazingly naive<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
Notice how the people making the software that Redhat and IBM uses in their businesses are NOT paid. Not paid in any way, not for man-hours, not for products, not for services, not for support, not for anything. IBM and Redhats "suits" investors are the ones in the end making money.
The GPL has turned programmers into big coorporations unpaid slaves. There are a handfull of exceptions but generally thats the rule.
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