Negotiating a worse contract

Posted Apr 4, 2008 6:27 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Negotiating a better contract? by kevinbsmith
Parent article: A creative example of the value of free drivers

Yes, but you realize the difference. A company that licenses some code only for its release in binary form is not hurting its users. But a company that licenses code only for a specific version of the operating system is setting an expiry date on its drivers, and so effectively on the hardware as well. Or at least on a feature of the hardware.