Re: [Fsuk-manchester] RMS on Swedish Pirate Party vs Free Software

[David Greaves]

Pater Mann wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> I disagree that proprietary software
>> needs to or should be able to exist though.  Such an argument is based
>> on the idea that the source code is somehow special and unique.
> 
> It may be! I wrote a library that implements B-trees in a unique way
> that has advantages over conventional implementations. As far as I am
> aware, no-one else implements B-trees in that way. (I must confess
> that I haven't looked very hard though!) I have used my skill and
> expertise to create this library and, although I currently have no
> plans to sell it, I don't see why I should give the details away to
> anyone and everyone without any recompense.

Just out of interest who did you buy the B-Tree idea from and how much did you
pay to get the right to sell your own implementation?

David

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