[svlug] Fedora or Ubuntu for novis

[Chris Miller]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
> begin Tim Bird quotation of Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:41:31AM -0700:
>> Don Marti wrote:
>> > The main problem with getting companies to make
>> > code Free is _not_ managers acting in the interests
>> > of their shareholders or in their own interest.
>> > The main problem is just inertia.  If the policy
>> > at a company has been "never release source code"
>> > you have to do something to make it happen the first
>> > time, and you can't justify putting in the time to do
>> > it unless you can say that you have to.
>> >
>> > If you're Joe Product Manager and you want to put
>> > source code for your device on the net, or on the
>> > bundled CD, you can easily explain it as "we're
>> > complying with our obligation under the license."
>> > If you don't have the GPL to point to, _you_ have
>> > to come up with the reason why you're sharing code,
>> > and it had better not be "community mumble mumble
>> > hippy dippy 2.0 mumble mumble."
>>
>> That's exactly right.  I love this last part you wrote.
>>
>> Most of the reasons that community guys try to give
>> to product guys for mainlining stuff (as opposed
>> to just publishing as required by license) don't
>> really have a compelling ring to them, to the product
>> guys anyway, and amount to so much mumbling like you
>> say.
>>
>> May I quote you on this?
>
> Permission granted to quote me with attribution.
> (Please link my name to http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> if the medium permits.)

So is that a Creative Commons Attribution license?  ;-)

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