Re: Release plans

[Thomas Lord]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>     The declaration of intent to refuse (aka "ban") helps give
>     XRefractory a business plan (because the same ban makes life harder
>     for less speculatively funded competitors like CEDET).
>
> That's just speculation, and I don't find it convincing.
>   

Is that a pun?   I mean, if my comments are speculation
they are speculation about how people speculate...

The general principle I've expressed rests on pretty
uncontroversial assumptions:   feature bans help
protect a barrier to entry for anyone who manages to
work around them;  barriers to entry are one of the
key things that venture funders and similar investors
look for in software firms.  


-t





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