Re: [LUG] OT: "Bloody' Microsoft

["Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/10/2007, Simon Robert <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

so the guy I used to work for, a one man (and me) business, who had written a massive application for managing, stock controling, billing etc a certain type of specialist retail business and whose not had any sort of holiday in years and just has a normal type income is an evil barsteward and anyone who fancies it should be able to take a copy of his system and use it for free? Are you saying no one should be able to make a living from software?

I believe the idea is that the living should come from services. I, for instance, am planning to operate my A2 Computing project as a SaaS service, but the code is still GPL.

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