Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:12:42 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Subject: RE: Effects of the GPL Message-ID: <XFMail.990208201242.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990208044608.00c8a9f0@mail.lariat.org>
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On 08-Feb-99 Brett Glass wrote: > I think it will. The GPL limits opportunities for entrepreneurship, > because it's tough to start a company that creates, and profits from, > useful software. And it hurts innovation, because inventive programmers > can't base their work on what came before and reap the benefits of their > additions. Instead, they must reimplement the wheel first. This > imposes such a hefty penalty that few will try. Just an interesting sidenote, aren't all the people who offer binary gz's of their programs licensed under GPL in violation, or would the seperate available download of the source be sufficient? > But I would welcome contributions to an > online presentation about the subject. I'd like to call it "The > Fortress, the Cathedral, and the Bazaar." Microsoft, of course, > would be the Fortress; the theology-motivated FSF (with Linux and > the GPL) the Cathedral; and the commercial software world and the > BSD movement the Bazaar. Brett, with all pleasure... I was thinking the same after reading ESR's documents and the Halloweens docs. Mail me =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven join #FreeBSD on Undernet asmodai(at)wxs.nl Time is merely a residue of Reality... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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