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Subject: Re: can it go commercial?

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 00:08:57 06/21/05

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On June 21, 2005 at 02:43:01, Madhavan wrote:

>On June 21, 2005 at 02:19:08, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>On June 20, 2005 at 11:16:49, Madhavan wrote:
>>
>>>On June 20, 2005 at 11:12:31, Gabor Szots wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 20, 2005 at 10:32:33, Cesar Contreras wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I'm not sure, in my understanding every derivated work from Fruit must be GPL.
>>>>>
>>>>>can it go commercial?
>>>>>
>>>>>if so can anybody make it commercial or just fabien?
>>>>>
>>>>>in my undersanding (point me wrong), fruit not longer belongs to fabien because
>>>>>it's GPL.
>>>>
>>>>In my opinion it would be ridiculous if law did not allow Fabien to make his own
>>>>program commercial.
>>>
>>>Why not?
>>>you dont want top freebie to get first ranking?
>>>
>>>Fabien is a very kind and polite man,he wanted to distribute his code to
>>>everyone.why is it so ridiculous?its his own work,he can do anything with it.
>>
>>I have read your answer about 10 times now and I still don't understand what it
>>has to do with my post.
>>Still, I apologize for the perhaps too harsh reaction in my other reply.
>
>"In my opinion it would be ridiculous if law did not allow Fabien to make his
>own program commercial."
>
>Why is so hard to understand?It has nothing to do with law because Fabien wants
>to release his program freely
>
>its not ridiculous,you mean that you wanted law to disallow fabien to release
>his new version because there were other programmers who will lose their job
>because customers will be convinced that fruit is already better than any
>commercial and its a freebie,right?

No, I meant law should not forbid. How can you interpret it otherwise is a
mystery for me.

>
>
>I mean its not upto law to decide anything if a programmer who believes his
>program doesnt attain commercial level,Fabien believes fruit still needs more
>update.
>
>Law shouldnt forbid.

That is exactly (not exectly :-)) what I said.

>>Best wishes,
>>Gábor



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