On 2006-08-15 12:04:18, Alex Martelli wrote: > It just isn't worth Microsoft's while to take the public-relations hit > of such a fight: much cheaper for them to re-implement your ideas than > to copy your GPL'd code.
Exactly. So by publishing the ideas as GPL code, the author presents them not only the ideas very clearly and well documented, but also an example implementation. If there was some R&D work involved, it may be a better thing (in terms of protection) not to publish it. The protection from GPL is pretty much worthless if the worth is more in the principle than it the execution. Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
