Re: [Sdcc-user] uCOS porting royalties - mail to Jean andanswer

[Randy S. <ra...@co...>]

Bruce Boyes wrote:
> 
> At 04:24 7/12/2000 +0000, Randy Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> >>>> You can distribute the SOURCE of the port but not uC/OS's processor
> >> independent's source.  Last thing I want is to have uC/OS-II source FREE
> for
> >> download from a web site.  My publisher would have a hard time with that
> >> since they may not sell as many books.
> >>
> >
> >Oh, no... wouldn't want to have free source code for anything now would
> >we.
> >
> >This mentality pisses me off to no end.
> 
> OK - you start a business, create a product and give it away including
> source code, and tell me how you will survive. Why does anyone owe you
> source code for something for which you have not paid or bartered or
> provided any value in return? Or am I missing something? I'm not ranting,
> just wondering.
> 

I do believe that your order of events should be ordered somewhat differently. Logically, a product
would come before a business. I don't imagine that a business could be formed without some idea of
what it is you would be selling/building/whatever. However, this is nitpicking on my part and
doesn't go to answer your question. 

You might direct your question to RedHat, Caldera, Corel, SuSE, TurboLinux, or one of the many other
companies that have already been successful at doing this.

I can see from your message header that you are a windoze user. Do you know much about the Free
Software Foundation or the Open Source Software Movement? If not, then it might give you a different
perspective if you were to read up a bit on them.

http://www.fsf.org 
http://www.opensource.org
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/

As a personal curiosity, are you from the same "systronix" that did the 8051 basic stuff?

Randy Smith