Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:06:09 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: Non-GPL modules |
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:38:50PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > >... > > In the business world, something as simple as puts("Hello World!"); > > MUST be kept a trade secret. If it was written by an employee > > in the context of his or her job, the company's stockholders owns > > that line of code so no employee, even the President, is allowed > > to give it away. > >... > > IOW: Companies like IBM, SAP, Sun and SGI that made code available under > the GPL (e.g. as part of the linux kernel or with of relicensed programs) > weren't allowed to do this??? > > > Am I allowed to consider this a bad joke?
Yeah. Let's not forget HP and Apple too. I mean what major hardware vendors are left after that? Obviously someone has no idea how companies work. Stockholders own nothing tangible other than a stake in the company. They control the politics of the companies stradegy, but it's the CEO on down that makes the decisions.
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