Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 24, 2004 11:09 AM
I do not advocate "outlawing" FOSS except in the case of taxpayer-supported efforts covered by anti-commercial (aka "polluting") licenses such as the GPL.
Then why is it that when a business wants to open something up for strategic reasons they use the GPL? Sun could have put OpenOffice under the BSD license but that would have given their competitors a free-for-all. What you call "polluting", we call "anti-leeching". MS has said more than once that they approve of the BSD license. The reason why is obvious. MS can leech off it and give nothing back. Could it be you don't like the GPL because it lets me share without doing YOUR work for free?
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Re:Article completely misses the point.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 24, 2004 11:09 AMThen why is it that when a business wants to open something up for strategic reasons they use the GPL? Sun could have put OpenOffice under the BSD license but that would have given their competitors a free-for-all. What you call "polluting", we call "anti-leeching". MS has said more than once that they approve of the BSD license. The reason why is obvious. MS can leech off it and give nothing back. Could it be you don't like the GPL because it lets me share without doing YOUR work for free?
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