DOS ain't dead - University Challenge

University Challenge (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 25.03.2022, 22:17

> > You may not see a reason, but I do. Maybe not a
> > problem for you, but a problem for people who
> > think like me.
>
> Then are you able to explain how putting code in the public domain somehow
> magically makes it more able to "compete with Microsoft"? Or is it just an
> artificial requirement you are imposing on yourself?

You answered this question yourself.

> No software house I can think of — not Google, not Apple, not even
> Microsoft the Great Satan itself — has had any issue with using
> permissively-licensed open source code. This is not just "what I think";
> this is an established fact.

Those companies don't represent the entire software
industry now or in the future, and have large budgets
to fight, or recover from, legal challenges by an
undisputed copyright holder.

Any company I start will not touch anything except
public domain code.

Any company that thinks like me will be in the same
boat.

I have already been contacted by one such company.

> > Until someone is willing to sign on the dotted
> > line that a work is being put into the public
> > domain, the job hasn't been done yet.
>
> And why do you think it is such a great good, for someone to work on a
> piece of software for free, only to have zero say whatsoever over
> how some hypothetical far-away for-profit company might choose to cash in
> on it? I do not see how this is good at all.

Here you have answered your own question.

You don't like the idea of companies using your
code without you having any say over it. That's
not freedom of use.

I won't touch anything less.

Why I think it is a great good is explained here
in more detail:

https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpgoal.txt

BFN. Paul.

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University Challenge - kerravon, 20.03.2022, 18:14 (Announce)
- University Challenge - tom, 21.03.2022, 21:39
  - University Challenge - kerravon, 21.03.2022, 22:17
    - University Challenge - glennmcc, 22.03.2022, 19:06
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