[Fsf-friends] Need help on how to respond to insecure CEOs

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Rishi Gangoly said on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 12:10:18AM +0530,:

 > - What if the competition uses my code and shuts my company down?
 > 
 > How does one respond to the fear?

1) www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-libre-commercial-viability.html
2) www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html
3) www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
4) www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

If you  use a  copyleft (not merely  `free') license, you  can prevent
others from misappropriating your code.


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