[Gasification] Re: Lego /Instrumentation, Control and Operation

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:40:48 -0500, Harmon wrote in message 
<22acb24d0605240940m2ecd03ehaad2ccbc69d0fcdd at mail.gmail.com>:

>    Yes, right, I should have said "open source" not public domain.

..no, you should have said 'free software, free as in freedom, not
neccessarily like in free beer.'  I hear Microsoft has built it's early
networking on "open source" in "near public domain" and claimed that as
its own under their "EULA" contracts, simply because the "open source"
code authors didn't understand or appreciate copyright law.

..IBM now builds a lot of their business on the GPL and GPL code,
because they earn a nice fat profit doing it the GPL way.

> Although the end result is practically the same. Free for us to us, at
> any rate, for the most part.
> 
> 
> On 5/24/06, Arnt Karlsen <arnt at c2i.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:28:57 -0500, Harmon wrote in message
> > <22acb24d0605240728p625c28d8r4ac9d1147cb3a074 at mail.gmail.com>:
> >
> > >    Don't try to reinvent the wheel -- I think you'll find all the
> > >    data
> > > acquisition and control software you could possible want already
> > > exists. And, in the linux world, almost all public domain.
> >
> > ..nope.  Firmly protected for the authors and the public by the
> > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> >
> > ..philosophy and enforcement:
> > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> > http://www.gnu.org/
> > http://groklaw.net/
> >
> > ..this should work for gasification too, not just for GNU/Linux.
> >


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