> Kenneth Gonsalves writes: > > in short, people who use BSD licenses are talented and lucky - I > > could live with that
PJ writes: > Not relying on luck in the first place would seem wiser. I would also suggest that the hall-of-shame type of sites; spam; viruses and evil botnets are a consequence of what you get when luck runs out. When luck runs out, then FOSS is unable to dominate despite its technical superiority, because the reality is that a convicted monopolist is using and abusing his market share to prevent competition and delivering his own shoddy product instead. BSD style licencing is better than most, but such licences have had a role in helping MS Windows to its current position (which is why Bill Gates favours them). As a result of proprietary, closed source dominance, the net is now blessed with unending spam, viruses, evil botnets and sites that only work for Internet Explorer. So something even better than such BSD style licences seems wiser for overall IT development in the future. Otherwise we are condemned to repeat history. 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/
