On 3/1/10 5:47 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote: > BTW - See http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3 > for a message from rms about an example of why BSD is better > than nothing.
Actually, he seems to be saying BSD is better than GPL for this particular case. In fact, the case occurs more often than it might seem. Suppose that Apple had chosen to not use Berkeley Unix because it was GPL'd. In what way, exactly, would the world be a better place? Apple would not have used BSD if was GPL'd. It's not the right answer to say "they just should have used it anyway." Business doesn't work that way, and making an idealized statement that businesses should do things that are against their interests is, well, naive. It's kind of like Marxism. Great idea. Too bad it doesn't work for our species. Edward -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: eal.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 351 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-users/attachments/20100303/3f8e3cd8/attachment.vcf>
