On Friday 29 December 2006 13:20, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 29-Dec-06, at 1:01 PM, jtd wrote: > > subverted. Linux and the entire FOSS ecosystem has flourished > > because of the GPL and it's staunch defendants. All the others > > would have been academic curiosities, milked for their freebie > > technology and ditched at the first opportunity. > > i seriously doubt this - GPL is just one strand in the web - a big > important one, but nonetheless one of many
Indeed it is so now. And it is a matter of joy that non gpld libre software (software which permits reuse without a financial costs for any purpose u choose) are doing well. But are the dangers over? Most definetly no. If anything u have organisations with enormous resources, working very hard to subvert the gpl and the opensourcers playing right into their hands. Mono is a case in point. 3 yrs ago everyone thought why not. After the Microvell deal only an insane person would use it. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
