On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Kamal R Prasad wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:21:21PM +0530, Kamal R Prasad wrote:
>
> wins meaning - a good reason to opt for writing stuff in the BSD
> environment rather than in Linux. The folks Im working with are familiar
> with Linux, not with *BSD and I have to give them a good reason why the
> GPL won't do.

If I'm your competitor and buy one of your devices, you have to give me
the source code, and access to all the patents & IP in the product. If I
want, I can turn around and sell it to others (and give then source, etc.)
all I want. I can also pay a consultant to buy one and then do a dirty
room/clean room. That won't give access to the patents, but the IP will be
open.

Take care,

Bill