From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:23:26 -0700
From: Tom Duff td@pixar.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan9 should be free distributable
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> Let's bash all commercial companies who keep technology they have no
> interest or intent in developing closed licensed so others can't go
> forward.
>
> It's predatory.

This is a bizarre use of `predatory.'

Pricing goods below cost to drive out competition is predatory.

Causing your OS to derate the performance of
competitor's application software is predatory.

Acquiring your competitors in order to
shut them down is sometimes predatory.

But refusing to be a competitor's unpaid R&D
department is manifestly not predatory.

--
Tom Duff.  That's music in a nutshell.