From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 8 11:03:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13002 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12997 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:03:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.70]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA53F0; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:03:29 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990208044608.00c8a9f0@mail.lariat.org> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:12:42 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Brett Glass Subject: RE: Effects of the GPL Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Gregory Sutter Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message