On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:14:22 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com said:
What is it about GNU/FSF and credits anyways? Somehow nobody in businesses want to mention their name on anything ;)
No, businesses care about the money. Getting credit is only relevant if it gets publicity that gets more money, but that is an indirect benefit.
In free software, what is in it for the authors? For a large segment, getting the credit, and the recognition that follows, is _it_. Eben Moglen commented on this to some extent in the recent Theo/BSD/LKML scrap about credits for driver code.
So, not very surprising; if all one gets paid in is the coin of recognition, stealing credits gets to be very important. Try stealing money from businesses, they too kinda tend to get all hot and bothered about silly little barter tokens they call money.
manoj