Re: getting hardware data
- Posted by bill May 22, 2012
- 1625 views
(probably going to have a lot of huffing about what open source really is now, but never mind)
Chris
You and CK Lester as admins for an open source project.
Someone comes along and uses that project to not only
make a profit for themselves (OK) but make their product
closed source (dodgy) and protected (even more dodgy).
If I make contributions to Euphoria it is to an open-source
project. I understand people may want to use that software
for profit, and I don't have a problem with that.
I do have some problem with the program being closed source,
but that is a recognised user choice. I really think that
hardware dongles are far beyond what is acceptable.
Euphoric gave advice how to do this with no recognition that
the request was in any way out of order.
It's sheer exploitation on Hacker's part. No one gets paid for open-source development. feel that people are perfectly entitled to produce closed source protected software for profit using open source then I wonder how it is that you can j
