[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: > >I don't like what I perceive as end effect of what GPL license > >writers are attempting to achieve: vendor lock-in.
> And my counter-argument is that I believe your perception is wrong. If > I agreed with your focus on lock-in, I'd say that what the GPL is trying > to lock in is a specific legal philosophy by subverting the existing > system. Bulba's perception is wrong in a different way too. The GPL tries to encourage the enlargement of a public resource, namely a codebase shareable by a worldwide community of users and developers, a cyber equivalent of a public park whose facilities anyone can visit and use but nobody can take away and exclude others from using. The idea of referring to such a shared community resource as a "vendor" is just bizarre. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
