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To: E. Charters who wrote (1956)	12/15/1999 4:40:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

That's the IPO I'm *really waiting for; O'Reilly! :) Free software is killing our forests! Discussion of partitioning schemes alone has caused more soil errosion than strip mining! -JCJ

To: E. Charters who wrote (1956)	12/15/1999 11:44:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2617

There's another question of the GPL: Given the economic model of applications through service providers (and billing in place of selling), doesn't that heavily favor the larger ASP over the little guy? The ASP can package freeware (including GPL) as a 'service' whereas the guy who wrote the free (free as in freekin') software and presumably licensed it under the GPL isn't allowed to profit from it traditionally, except in competition with the ASP billing machine. -- I can see where Java is going to be a magnet for indy software developers. I'm not sure GPL is such a great friend to software developers who aren't kernel hackers and low level services (nix features) guys. --- PD favors the bigger entity because of it's ability to better leverage and execute the 'brand' (branded service). GPL favors the bigger entitiy because it practically requires the software developer to be employed by the bigger entity 'services' company. --- The classical software entrepreneur (then) develops Java. --- Mitch? -JCJ