On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Aasif Shaikh aasif.shkh@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I am new to GNU/Linux and Open Source world. I had seen lots of open source stable projects on internet, which anybody can download, modify and sell to anybody.
Now the question arises; if a *PERSON A* develops a stable and good project as an Open Source and upload it over the internet and the *PERSON B* from some other country downloads and modify it with his name as an author (basically he is stealing someone's code) and sell it to some company to make money out of it. So how this *PERSON A* is going to be benefited.
some reading material of interest to you
http://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License http://www.fsf.org/resources/what-is-fs/what-is-fs-new.pdf
Please excuse me if I am wrong in asking this question.
Best Regards, Aasif Shaikh. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers