GPL vs BSD Licence

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:15:17AM +0100, nbco wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:12, TM4525 at aol.com wrote:

> > Are people who have written custom GUI front ends for Linux stealing?
> > They're not stealing, they are getting paid for the value that
> > they've added. Are people that sell bottled water stealing? No one is
> > forcing you to pay for water. But its been cleaned and nicely
> > packaged and it fits in your cupholder, so you buy it.

> I have to say I generally really approve of TM4525's  attitude,  but on 
> this one, you can't fool all of the people all of the time...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3523303.stm
> coca cola no longer sells water in England, even though it be real 
> purdy, the punters, don't buy it.....

This is getting way off topic for freebsd-questions at ... (therefore
Reply-to: set to freebsd-chat at ... ).

Dasani water had to be withdrawn because Coca Cola's "purification"
process resulted in the water being contaminated with unacceptable
levels of bromate.  Bromate is a potential carcinogen, although it
takes long term, chronic exposure to have that effect.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3550063.stm

Result -- Dasani is a joke and rapidly becoming a byword for corporate
greed, stupidity and the misplaced belief that all you need is a
marketing campaign and that it's perfectly OK to treat your customers
with contempt.

All of which was a particularly dumb move by Coca Cola, especially as
they only suffered from the bromate contamination by trying to add
calcium to the (already perfectly good) water supplied by Thames
Water.  The ironic thing is that within parts of it's area of
operations, Thames Water supplies what must be the most calcium rich
tap water supply anywhere in the country.  Unfortunately for Coca Cola
that water is already on the market:

    http://www.chilternhills.co.uk/

Although it's noticably not present in the shops round here: that's
because it comes out of the taps at about 1/1000 of the price of
bottled water.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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