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Yes. Which is the inherant problem with my idea. But then again, there 
are commercial vendors that still proffit when their sourcecode is 
released for a price.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 06:36:34PM -0400, ameer armaly wrote:
> Then wouldn't the code be floating around, and people could in theory
> modify it a bit, and release their own product under a different name?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> > True. However another thing that should possibly be considered is still
> > commercialize it, however include the source code provided you pay for
> > it. And then Freedombox could start a developer community, where
> > bugs/patches could be submitted. The only problem I can see with this
> > approach is that there is a chance that someone might release changes
> > that they made under the GPL.
> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 04:28:51PM -0400, Doug Sutherland wrote:
> > > > this wonderful addition happens to be...proprietary.
> > >
> > > Presumaby Matt works for said company. If the software was not
> > > proprietary, then how would Matt make a living? If all of the
> > > world's software were free, there would be a whole lot of
> > > unemployed programmers. I think you are going a bit too far
> > > with your ideas on ethics. Software developers should be able
> > > to earn money for their work. Would plumbers work for free
> > > because of an ethical need for people to have water?
> > >
> > >   -- Doug
> > >
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