On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:36:36PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:55 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The GPL discourages* businesses from producing software
>
> Google put $5.6 million into this year's Summer of Code.  Red Hat just
> reported $500 million quarterly profits, and they make plenty of GPLd
> software.  IBM makes GPLd code.  Sun makes GPLd code, and god knows
> they're even stodgier than IBM these days.
>
> I don't see how the GPL is discouraging business from producing
> software, and I don't see how we should care if it is.

SJS doesn't like GPL so therefore you *must* be wrong.

QED



cs


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