Evil ideas

[John Tapsell]

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I was just reading on /. about that perl monk who released some code under 
the GPL, then his employees claimed ownership, and yanked it back.


 I was wondering - if an evil company got someone to unofficially write some 
GPL code and that person then released it to the community.  Then wait say a 
year for everyone to become dependant on it.  Then the evil company yanks it 
back, revokes the GPL license claiming it was illegal in the first place, 
then charges lots of money for the program.
  This is very similiar to the perlmonk case, except I hope it doesn't have 
the evil purposes..

  Thoughts?

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