Oz WB PCBs - now available - Or how I screwed the list

[Bruce]

So you endorse theft and piracy.
Maybe you have a low reguard for *men*, but I happen to be from the old
school, where a man's word is valued.
Sorry too hear you accept pitiful conduct, as being excusable.

I have no doubt there are some that will cash in on the WB.  But, for a
lister, to do so so blanantly is not excusable in my book.

BTW, are you privy to his plans?.  Or kept up with the details, or just
hitting reply?.
Bruce




----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Theurer" <habanero at us.ibm.com>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Oz WB PCBs - now available - Or how I screwed the list


> > Why now would anyone with enough talent want to contibute to any
possible
> > **money makers**, when  they can devote the work to their own end, and
cash
> > in on it.
> > Pete made money an issue.
>
> People do this all the time.  Linux, Samba, FreeBSD.  The money makers do
> have some restictions, like making available original source code, but
they
> are free to make as much money as customers are willing to give them.
They
> do not have to give their contributions back in many cases (linking to a
LGPL
> library, writing a kernel module, etc).  But the developers still  work at
> it, despite people making money off it.
>
> If you are worried that someone might make money off an idea/contribution
you
> made public, then you shouldn't make your ideas/contributions public.  If
I
> ever contribute something original to these efforts (I currently don't
have
> that talent), I assume that those ideas are in the public domain, where
> anybody can do whatever the hell they want with it.  It's too much trouble
to
> worry how someone might make money over my publicly disclosed idea.  So,
in
> short, why care about how someone is making money of your idea?  Does it
> really effect you?  Were your intentions to make money on this eventually?
> I think you need to be realistic here.
> -Andrew


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