Let me back up for a second, Id been having trouble getting my head around the ongoing debate about the sale of acquisition as it pertains to open source. The legalities of who own what and what is ethical when using open source blah, blah, blah. Too much stuff i know very little about so i figured id start a thread and ask a question straight away that (for me at least) would put a lot of the discussion into perspective.
I asked - "If i were a software designer, could i use acquisition's code as freely as the code acquisition itself was built on to make my own version or would it cost me?"
thats it, i started getting a few responses and suddenly after the moderator commented and removed one of the posts, it was locked. Is this a taboo question or something? I was very respectful and asked a question regarding acq, so why lock it? I wasn't suspicious before but this seems really odd.
When a question (appropriate to the forum and politely discussed) gets shut down after only a day it leaves me a little, well ... disappointed.
This post isn't to get a bunch of people to jump up chanting "dave the tyrant" or anything of the like, i m just looking for a reasonable explanation.
thnx
I asked - "If i were a software designer, could i use acquisition's code as freely as the code acquisition itself was built on to make my own version or would it cost me?"
thats it, i started getting a few responses and suddenly after the moderator commented and removed one of the posts, it was locked. Is this a taboo question or something? I was very respectful and asked a question regarding acq, so why lock it? I wasn't suspicious before but this seems really odd.
When a question (appropriate to the forum and politely discussed) gets shut down after only a day it leaves me a little, well ... disappointed.
This post isn't to get a bunch of people to jump up chanting "dave the tyrant" or anything of the like, i m just looking for a reasonable explanation.
thnx