Re: [Nagios-devel] Reasons to not release in house GPL'd code (was

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Reasons to not release in house GPL'd code (was

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Steven D. Morrey wrote:

[ a very thorough and concise writeup of why companies really
prefer not to release in-house modifications to GPL apps ]

Thanks. I've been fortunate enough to only work on the other end of
the spectrum, where releasing something is considered to create a
lot of goodwill, but the reasons you mentioned makes sense. Oh, wait.
They don't, to me, but I can see how they do to others at least, which
is nearly the same thing ;-)

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