Re: [Linux-7110-psion] RE: CF Card / Series 5mx PRO & S7 support?

[Bernhard M. <ber...@gm...>]

Jim George <jim...@bl...> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 01:17, Bernhard Marx wrote:
> > Jim George <jim...@bl...> writes:
 
> > > 	What worries me about the concept of payment for GPL code is that it
> > > introduces the concept of funders (i.e. those that put money in) as
> > > users.  This could be a slippery slope to M$Window$ land.
> > 
> > Hm, I dont quite understand. 
> What I was trying to say here Berny is that once people start paying
> money out for code they expect more and more in return.  
> 
> Currently if a CVS version of the code trashes my Psion well that's
> tough but if I were to pay for the code in the first place I wouldn't be
> so easily forgiving.

Now I understand. But I think it is different in M$-Land. People pay a
lot of money for a system that crashes often and badly. They seem
however content with this and gladly buy each new version. Strange
folks... 

Berny

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