one thing i find anoying is

[Michael T. Richter]

On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 09:55 -0400, Andrew Zajac wrote:

> I think is that a lot of people who would otherwise "support" linux
> don't really get that this is about software freedom and that is
> pretty easy to do.  Just release the source.  You don't have to do
> anything else.


And what "software must be free" types don't get is that there are often
trade secrets hidden in the software that giving away for free leads,
essentially, to corporate suicide.  Having been on the other side of the
"give us the source!" call, I know just how likely it is that a small
company is going to give away its competitive edge to a bunch of what
amounts to anti-commerce communists.

Give these people a business case -- and by "business case" I mean
"orders in the range of millions" and they might just start seeing a
competitive advantage in releasing their source.  But with Linux being
the fringe market it is now, it's simply not worth it.

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