Still no new license -- but draft text available

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In article <39947690.5977 at seebelow.org>, Grant Griffin wrote:
>I'm not really "mad" (except in the "Mad Hatter" sense ;-), but the
>problem is that the cost of the ticket is unreasonably high.  Much of
>what I do is embedded software development.  In case you don't know,
>"embedded software" is stuff inside little black boxes that the user
>never really sees, and may not even know exists--you know, like the
>stuff that makes your toaster burn the toast--or makes the next Kleenex
>pop out of the box.  To provide users of embedded software with the
>source code is unreasonably expensive, relative to the economics of the
>applications.  Besides, the users don't really care anyway.  (Then
>again, I guess the source code for a VCR might finally offer some
>talented hacker a way to figure out how to program it.  ;-)

Seriously, how much trouble is it to put up a web site with the source
available for download? It's not, especially for a company that will
supposedly manufacture and distribute thousands of units of this
appliance.


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