On Friday 29 December 2006 13:20, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 29-Dec-06, at 1:01 PM, jtd wrote:
subverted. Linux and the entire FOSS ecosystem has flourished because of the GPL and it's staunch defendants. All the others would have been academic curiosities, milked for their freebie technology and ditched at the first opportunity.
i seriously doubt this - GPL is just one strand in the web - a big important one, but nonetheless one of many
Indeed it is so now. And it is a matter of joy that non gpld libre software (software which permits reuse without a financial costs for any purpose u choose) are doing well. But are the dangers over? Most definetly no. If anything u have organisations with enormous resources, working very hard to subvert the gpl and the opensourcers playing right into their hands. Mono is a case in point. 3 yrs ago everyone thought why not. After the Microvell deal only an insane person would use it.