cash@csmil.umich.edu (Howard Cash) (04/03/89)
Can someone explain to me the problem with "commercial exploitation" of code? What is the disadvantage that people see in having for-profit organizations use the same code that academic programmers and hobbiests use? Seems to me that everyone profits when "good" software solutions become fairly standardized. From a purely selfish point of view, when a commercial software house is able to save development costs, those savings may be passed on to me as a consumer. cash@csmil.umich.edu