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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 26, 2011 17:34 UTC (Thu) by farnz (guest, #17727)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by loftsy
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Effectively, what you're saying is that if the Banshee developers had chosen to take their code proprietary, they wouldn't have trouble with Canonical taking advantage of the benefits of Free Software.

While that's certainly true, that's not a benefit to Free Software, and if that's the sort of thing that people are coming up with that justifies copyright assignment, then I'm going to remain sceptical of Mark's motivations.


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