From: "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...>
Date: 2001-01-13T13:19:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9233] Re: Licensing issues

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:

> One reason for this might be that commercial users will not be motivated
> to continue develop such a SW product (free commercial software in the
> gnu.org excerpt above) since someone else (Ruby Foundation and the
> author) would benefit. Is this the reason?
> 
> /Robert

Actually, the reason might be that companies are generally not run by
economists or developers. "Management" lives in a paranoid world fraught with
secrecy and lies.  The concept of "open source" is completely foreign to them
:-)

Kent Starr
elderburn@mindspring.com