In gnu.misc.discuss RJack <[email protected]> wrote: > Once the GPL is invalidated, promissory estoppel will allow some > proprietary company to improve Linux and turn it into a real operating > system. Microsoft hates the thought that folks will understand the GPL > is unenforceable. That's the reason Microsoft embraced the GPL -- it > suppressed new competition.
> Perhaps the Linux kernel will continue to be improved under a free > (free as in freedom) license such as BSD or Apache. You still don't get it, RJ. The GPL is the most popular free licence, and that popularity has a reason. Working on a BSD kernal is so much less popular than working on Linux. That has a reason, too. > Sincerely, > RJack :) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
