[lbo-talk] Open-source licensing: GPL is a better model

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Jul 8 09:36:03 PDT 2005


ravi wrote:


>> The GPL breaks down walls between vendors and
>>customers while enabling strong competitive differentiation. Unlike
>>the BSD, which strikes me as serving an ever-narrowing slice of the
>>development community that shares code simply for the sake of
>>sharing, the GPL takes a hardheaded look at software development (and
>>human nature) and works to maximize choice, control and a free
>>market.
>>
That's beautiful: sharing simply for the sake of sharing....I wonder what horrors that would lead to?

Joanna


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