Net Integration's NITIX OS

[Jonathan Hale]

Hal and Jared,

Thank you both for your input (both on and offlist).  Additional
comments inline:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal Duston" <hduston at speedscript.com>
To: "Kclug" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Net Integration's NITIX OS

> to deliver it.  If delivering a modified binary+source code to some
> members of KCLUG thereby obligated me to deliver binary+source code to
> any and all parties could quickly overwhelm my capability to deliver
it.
> This would thereby be a disincentive for me to even develop any
> modifications in the first place.
>
> --
> Hal

Obviously, the GPL does not require that you distribute it to EVERYONE.
This would, as Hal said, be a disincentive to develop... However, if it
is licensed to all third parties, and one of these third parties
requests the source code, how much of a burden is that?  Maybe when five
or six a day start making the same request... I think that is why most
companies just go ahead and post the sources online.  As for me, I would
be perfectly happy to agree with Hal if I heard the same thing from THE
MAN himself.  I would still like to see the code, but I think getting a
reply from Linus or RMS would be just as cool.  Funny/Sad thing is, I
realized after I sent the first one off that Linus is on a hiatus from
Transmeta (and I didn't even think to search for direct contact info for
RMS).