Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)

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From: Ilya Zakharevich
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00

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[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to J. Clarke
<nospam@nospam.nospam>],
who wrote in article <38946ccc_4@news3.prserv.net>:
> > What risk?  GPL *is* enforced against you.
> 
> No.  It _can_ be.  It *is* only after the courts have ruled in a specific
> case.

If you follow this logic further, then

  only after the court has ruled in *your* case.

> > But how is it a
> > disadvantage in the context of device drivers?
> >
> > You will need to release your source code.  So what?
> 
> So if you want to sell your device driver commercially, and it contains
> portions of code that are GPL protected, then the first person to buy your
> device driver can then give it away gratis and what happens to your market?

Market does not buy source code.  Market buys a product, which has
many more components than source code (remember support?).  Make your
product better than what "the first person to buy your device driver"
can.

Ilya

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From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
Subject: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)
Date: 2000/01/30
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