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Old 11-05-2003, 12:19 PM   #127
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Yeah, sure.

When Matt has, ever since joining this board, done nothing but try to weaken the license at all costs, in any possible way. When Matt, running a commercial operation, isn't even supposed to have a stake in DIKU at all.

What some of us do wonder is what Matt's real motives are.

It certainly isn't altruism, if it were, he'd actually try to strengthen the license rather than water it down ("Hey, just incorporate yourselves, it's cheap and I'll help you do it").

Which begs the question, what could be the potential benefit to one commercial MUD if the DIKU license is further watered down.

I can obviously only speculate. The only rational explanation which comes to mind being that for some reason, a strong DIKU license is a direct threat to his own operation... And, call me paranoid all you want, the only reason in my book that DIKU could threaten Matt's codebases would be that if those weren't after all, really completely coded from scratch.
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