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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 27.03.2022, 01:05

> I see one major difference between code placed into the 'public domain'
> and code that's under GPL, MIT, BSD and other various licenses.
> (All of which require that the modified code must be released
> along with the resulting program)
>
> That difference being that 'public domain' does _not_ require
> modified code the be released along with its resulting program.
>
> Therefore, any program which started as 'public domain' code would
> for all intents and purposes end-up being "proprietary" and could
I don't know what you mean by "ending up proprietary".
The original public domain code remains public domain.

> be sold thereby making profit from someone else's work without
> being required to pay the original authors any of those profits.
So why don't you start a company and make the alleged
massive profits from all the public domain code out
there? Maybe you could donate some of those profits
to charity?

Anyway, by definition, the company is only making a
profit from any value they add. Otherwise people
would use the original public domain code. That value
could be simply compiling the source into an executable,
or advertising its existence.

You can do that too.

> Hmmmm...
> sounds just about like what MicroSoft has been doing for over 40yrs.
I doubt that Microsoft has been using much public
domain code to make their products. They are unlikely
to find public domain code that is tailor-made for
some product that they are creating.

It is more practical (in my opinion - but it is for
the free market to decide) to pick up an existing
public domain product (and in the OS market, that
would be PDOS/386) and make improvements to it.

BFN. Paul.

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