Re: SGI Freeware Feb. 2004

From: Keith Keller (kkeller-usenet_at_wombat.san-francisco.ca.us)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:20:41 -0800

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On 2004-01-30, S.Chang <shu.chang@mapson.ieee.org> wrote:

> at least I can use commercial
> Unix and know everything we developed in the lab can be published
> without any questions being asked by the vendors, can you do that with
> softwares under GPL?

Are you *sure*? Have you read every single license agreement for
every single piece of software you've installed on your system? I've
seen some (in an academic environment) where you were basically
restricted from ever distributing any product produced by the software.

> Source is opened but only for decoration!

Hardly, but I'm not sure these newsgroups are the place for such
a discussion.

> Buy a PC, install Linux, and wait for X to crash so you can press
> Crt+Alt+Back, how exciting when you are half way through a 6000 CPU hour
> simulation, only happens on Linux, not even M$ will give you this
> pleasure of losing everything you have done.

True--Windows wouldn't last 6000 cpu hours. ;-)

- --keith

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