> Joe, could we stop this now? It's obvious that if you go to a GPL > project and start slinging mud at the GPL, you are in the wrong place.
No, I was making a point. It's possible for the GPL to be a negative effect on a project. We led into the discussion in a fairly reasonable train of thought. > I would recommend that you head over to a Microsoft mailing list where > I'm sure you will find an abundance of fodder for your outdated > methodologies. My outdated methodologies? > When was the last time you actually worked in the industry? 2004. But not since last week. Damn, I'm being lazy! revision 1.571 date: 2004/10/11 15:36:48; author: jgreco; state: Exp; lines: +11 -0 > I think > you'll find if you get back out there that things have changed a lot > since the 80's (JK). Have they? Yes, I guess they have. There's more acceptance of free software as a solution. > But seriously. This thread is getting a little silly. > > Can't we just agree to disagree? The longer you continue this, the more > people you will involve from this list. I guess what bothers me most is that I don't "disagree": I think it's fine to release code under whatever license you want. However, I strenuously object to being vilified as some sort of Evil Corporate Lackey just because I've pointed out that the GPL prohibits some people from participating in the development process - for whatever reason. As one of the lead developers of a major BSD-style-licensed open source project, I've personally seen companies take the code, modify it heavily for internal use, and go their own way. I've also seen companies take the code, modify it heavily for internal use, and then contribute lots of changes back to the project. Is it disappointing not to get changes back from someone? Yes. However, many times it doesn't matter since they're only applicable locally anyways. And in most cases, the code isn't distributed anyways, so they'd be free to do that, even under GPL. What irks me is that the GPL advocates usually seem absolutely convinced that there are no circumstances under which the GPL is a negative influence, and that every bit of software on the planet can and should be open source. It's a viral license. That has its advantages. To hear these people talk, it also has no disadvantages. > Anyway -1 Flamebait. (also muted in playerlist) Heh. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users