OpenEuphoria

Re: GPL

• Posted by Steve Mosher <goat at DEVIL.ISN.NET> Feb 25, 2000
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> A lot of people use free software but do not contribute any of
>
>   their own free software to the archive.

        Yes, but a lot of people do contribute. For example, commercially, a
Win32 API wouldn't be all that cheap. Nor would a method of calling functions
across a network -- hint: if you use this properly, you can have a transparent
supercomputer on your LAN -- and you can still use all of your machines for
whatever they were doing before.
        Anyhow, to the point, if Euphoria was as (say) Perl, RDS would have to
buy more harddrives to host all the contributions. Look at CPAN. That is my
point, the 5% that do contribute would be so great that the fact that there's
19 times that many people getting a free ride wouldn't matter. That's the way
OSS works.