Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 24, 2002 06:51 PM
You are completely missing the point. The reason why Microsoft likes the BSD licensing is because there they can take others work, improve it, and NOT give it back. With the GPL you cant, you have to share, and share alike.
The GPL is not a viable businessmodel, if you consider business as we do it today. But in the future, which is a very service oriented society, the GPL makes a more viable business model, than any propriatary ones.
I dont know any specifics about the RedHat takeover on postgresql, but if they further developed it, and distributed it, others could have taken their work and put it back into the original code base. If they did not do that, or if the customers would rather want the RedHat version, then fine, let the market choose.
In the end, the society is better of with making that decision.
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Re:You can't have it both ways.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 24, 2002 06:51 PMThe GPL is not a viable businessmodel, if you consider business as we do it today. But in the future, which is a very service oriented society, the GPL makes a more viable business model, than any propriatary ones.
I dont know any specifics about the RedHat takeover on postgresql, but if they further developed it, and distributed it, others could have taken their work and put it back into the original code base. If they did not do that, or if the customers would rather want the RedHat version, then fine, let the market choose.
In the end, the society is better of with making that decision.
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