nanogui: Request for comments - Microwindows
Subject:
Re: Request for comments - Microwindows
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
5 Oct 1999 12:51:00 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9910051345470.22492-100000@www.linuxhacker.org>
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> Why give up your right to release source code? Why not tell that vendor
> "I'll sign and NDA, but only with the condition that I can release my work
> open-source." I have.
That's what we usually try. If you're only a small company making less
than a few thousand units, it often doesn't work.
There's also the situation of large closed source software systems too-
for example you can license the code to decent voice recognition
software... You can't easily reverse engineer something like that- it's
easier to spend a few months or years writing it again. In the case of a
company, it's much cheaper to spend say $20000 licensing some closed
source code than it is to have a team of developers spend a year or so
rewriting it from scratch.
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