free software may be a good contribution to society, but it is no moral problem at all. (Probably we should start questioning why we apply copyright law to trade secrets.) What always puzzles me is that companies that otherwise depend on open
On 12/7/2019 11:49 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: source have no problems with quite rigourous copyright claims, even go for lawsuits, and don't care about violating privacy. And I also have not much sympathy for companies that start using free software, boast about it, kind of use the community and then cash out, quit support, put the usefull stuff in expensive variants only and in the end leave users in the cold. I have no problem with commercial activities but they should be open and can not be hidden. Btw, it's one reason why open source / free sw can fail in cases: support can be more expensive than for commercial stuff, although often tex is dirt cheap, if only because much can be achieved with little coding and once it works, it works forever. One problem in your case is that managers probably don't make a proper cost-benefit analysis. Maybe we should make some templates for that some day. I wonder how much backslash - pun intended - there is because of all that pseudo open source. Makes a nice topic for late-night discussions at a next ctx meeting. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------