<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> as far as I am concerned, both gpl and bsd style licenses have their place. I > would reserve gpl for really innovative code (and there is very little of > that) > and keep bsd style licenses for the rest. I understand your reasoning though your conclusion is fallacious since it doesn't look at the longer term. > Incidently how come things like apache > and postgresql are surviving inspite of bsd style licenses - not to speak > about > perl, php, python etc etc. Or are the authors of all these morons who dont > understand what is freedom? The authors of these were talented enough to establish enough of a market share fast enough to be relatively immune to the embrace/extend/extinguish technique. I believe they were also somewhat lucky to avoid getting hijacked by Microsoft. Activeperl and its ilk were a danger earlier on to perl. Microsoft java and microsoft Jscript had their chance too to destroy bits of software freedom. I think luck played a hand there too in avoiding hijack. It is said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance - but a bit of luck certainly helps too, even though it is wiser not to count on it. PJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
