On Saturday 02 July 2005 15:50, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

its here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html

While the superiority of the development process guarantees a superior product, that in itself does not guarantee a future. It is a rather naive assumption that just because some socio-technical process works well there no need for using the law to protect it. Just yesterday M$ paid up $775+75 million for illegal monopolistic behaviour. Everybody knows that monopolies are bad and eventually fail. But in the intervening period the law breaker is a pain in the ass for everybody else. The law ensures that everbody else gets a chance to be a pain in their ass. Infact inspite of the gpl u have companies like google who do not contribute back derived gpld code. GPL v 3 will ensure that using forked closed gpld code to deliver services will be very difficult.

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