Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!clsib21!blblbl!mipseast!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Message-ID: <353@mipseast.mips.COM> Date: 27 May 88 17:22:16 GMT References: <5412@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3166@pdn.UUCP> <3c2a41f6.13422@apollo.uucp> <4629@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA Lines: 14 In article <4629@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >I don't see the difference between depending upon OSF to "never make its >licenses objectionable in the future" and depending upon AT&T to do the same. >Is there a contractural committment from OSF to provide new releases on the >same, or less onerous, terms as its first releases? If not, you have just >switched from the devil you know to a new devil. The difference is that the companies porting the software are not licensees, but co-owners of the source. -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM Burlington, MA 01803 I don't think we're in toto any more, Kansas... +1 617 270-0613