Re: value of open-source in the driver community (was "how to execute a process...")

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:55, Thomas F. Divine wrote:

Absolutely. Do it. I peek through BSD sources (which, indirectly are paid
for by my taxes) to get wonderful ideas that I might not have thought of
myself.

If it’s under GPL, I can’t look at it because in doing so I would commit my
company (and my customers) to adopt the same license.

This is very arguable. Reference Mark Roddy’s informative copyright
e-mails from a couple weeks ago. Patents are a much thornier issue,
though.

-sd