David Gerard wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
Karl A. Krueger wrote:
The claim that "no businessman will lightly use material released under a Gnu-like license" seems rather unusual.
Having sat in a number of meetings with businesspeople considering the use of GNU-licensed material, I can attest that the decision is usually made with considerable anguish and argument. The most painful decisions are when they realize that the techies have boxed them in already, and it's either use GNU, or fire all the techies and spend enormous sums re-creating from scratch - at these moments it's terrible hard not to grin as free software racks up another victory. :-)
<whisper>why they don't just use FreeBSD ...</whisper>
<whisper>No compiler or debugger...</whisper>
Stan