Re: issue with beta from 2019.11.29 21:47 in Windows

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 12/7/2019 11:49 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> free software may be a good contribution to society, but it is no moral
> problem at all. (Probably we should start questioning why we apply
> copyright law to trade secrets.)
What always puzzles me is that companies that otherwise depend on open 
source have no problems with quite rigourous copyright claims, even go 
for lawsuits, and don't care about violating privacy. And I also have 
not much sympathy for companies that start using free software, boast 
about it, kind of use the community and then cash out, quit support, put 
the usefull stuff in expensive variants only and in the end leave users 
in the cold. I have no problem with commercial activities but they 
should be open and can not be hidden.

Btw, it's one reason why open source / free sw can fail in cases: 
support can be more expensive than for commercial stuff, although often 
tex is dirt cheap, if only because much can be achieved with little 
coding and once it works, it works forever. One problem in your case is 
that managers probably don't make a proper cost-benefit analysis. Maybe 
we should make some templates for that some day.

I wonder how much backslash  - pun intended - there is because of all 
that pseudo open source. Makes a nice topic for late-night discussions 
at a next ctx meeting.

Hans


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