Re: [TCLUG:17728] Motif has gone opensource!

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

> Seriously, though, it's OK to give things away for free, but if you're not
> the first in line to profit from your own work, you set all sorts of bad
> precedents and weaken the argument that capitalism is in any way better
> than communism or feudalism or straight oppression.  Same goes for working
> too cheap at something because you just like doing it -- you eventually
> make it hard for anyone to make a decent living doing it at all.

Well, RedHat seems to be the first in line benefiting from many other
peoples work - and it is still using the GNU license on GNU make!

GPL does not gaurantee you make any profit before anybody else.  RedHat is
proof of that.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net