[Info-vax] Ada on VMS, was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/21/2018 10:28 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 6:35:51 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Mislead how by who?
>>
>> If someone promised them that they would make truckloads
>> of money and they did not then they were mislead.
>>
>> But if they understood that it was unlikely that they
>> would ever make lots of money from it then, then I can
>> not see them as being mislead.

> They were mislead. Deliberately and with malice aforethought. They
> were sold a bill of goods about "helping the community"

Since "helping the community" implied no pay, then if that
is why they did it, then not being paid is not being misled.

They understood how it worked and they decided to do it
anyway.

Their choice.

To be misled someone must have promised them something that
was not delivered.

>                                                          while the
> wording of the "license" kept getting watered down to suit those who
> wished to prey upon them.
Most open source licenses has not changed or has changed very little
for 20-30 years.

> Canonical, Red Hat, SuSE and others took their free stuff and, in
> many cases, without adding anything themselves, sold commercial
> licenses and commercial support contracts. They've now become
> publicly traded companies and in many/most cases haven't even bought
> a lunch or a beer for all of those who made their publicly traded
> success possible.
The companies that you mention have actually contributed a lot as
companies. Redhat was #1 contributing for several years until
Intel took over that spot.

And the money they earn is not made for selling software licenses
(unless the dual GPL commercial license cases). They money they
make is for support.

Big Bank Inc. pays Redhat for support. Redhat pays its employees
that take the calls from Big Bank Inc..

The original developer of the code does not expect to
get a cut of that support money. Because that is not how
it has been working so far - and does not
even make sense (they did not provide the support
service).

Arne