Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 04, 2004 11:05 PM
"If you license your software under the BSD license, you're giving it to *anyone* to do *anything* with. You don't necessarily receive *any* payment whatsoever, even if others continue the development and enhance the product.
With the GPL, if others improve your software, they must pass on those improvements if they distribute the software at all. That is the guaranteed payment you get from the GPL."
This is the main DEFECT of GPL. Free code should be free to become private of those who enhance it. This way third parties will be able to make money on the product and they will invest more and more to enhance it. And many products derived from the OS one will see the light. We don't need free products that kill the market, we do need free products that spark innovation. You call them "parasites" while I hope every day someone takes my sw and makes money on it. That are different points of view. But with the GPL poit of view, software market will sooner or later become like china or cuban economy. Where there isn't real (enforced) private property innovation stops.
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Re:Just another GPL zealot looking for freebies.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 04, 2004 11:05 PMWith the GPL, if others improve your software, they must pass on those improvements if they distribute the software at all. That is the guaranteed payment you get from the GPL."
This is the main DEFECT of GPL. Free code should be free to become private of those who enhance it. This way third parties will be able to make money on the product and they will invest more and more to enhance it. And many products derived from the OS one will see the light. We don't need free products that kill the market, we do need free products that spark innovation. You call them "parasites" while I hope every day someone takes my sw and makes money on it. That are different points of view. But with the GPL poit of view, software market will sooner or later become like china or cuban economy. Where there isn't real (enforced) private property innovation stops.
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