Re: licensing

Jeremy,

The point is that when it comes to software developed by a government, 
the citizens are the people paying for the product. When you pay taxes, 
you pay your government to do certain things.

Why would you pay your government to write software that another company 
- in another country - can profit from? I don't know how to atomize this 
further for people to understand, but if I need to, I will try.

Taran

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>>You're right. We disagree. Intellectualization of reality still leaves
>>us with reality. That farmer will still pay for code in proprietary
>>products if their government chooses a BSD license.
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>I don't understand how the farmer is forced to purchase proprietary
>products.
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>But I do understand how the farmer (since he is knowledgable) can choose
>to build a proprietary product (and a financial livelihood) based on the
>properly-licensed code.
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>   Jeremy C. Reed
>   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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