I meant Public Domain, not just Open Source.
Giovanni wrote:
My beef with it is that this companies develop under the covering of
open-source, just so that they can change and go commercial and force
others to pay for it. When some of this open-source projects were
starting, people downloaded their projects, debug them, and added to
it as it grew. Then when they grow, they go commercial. its the most
ridiculous thing I have ever seen.
I mean, I dont mind paying for technology but GPL pretends to be nice
which is where I have the issues with it. GPL is meant to benefit the
creator and the creator only. If they wanted to help the community use
other licenses or even public domain it.
I am amazed on how some of the people in the RB community are open
sourcing their code. If you use their classes, modules or controls,
please donate, software cost money even when free, so help the
community by donating to those awesome programmers.
Daniel L. Taylor wrote:
This is yet another reason to favor PostgreSQL over MySQL. PostgreSQL
is distributed with a BSD license. You could, if you wish, sell
PostgreSQL, without paying anyone a cent. You could modify it and
sell it, too (some folks do), without giving away your modifications.
I agree. A while back I decided that I would do my best to steer
future projects away from MySQL and to another DBMS, even in cases
where the client might be willing to pay the commercial fees.
Something about the GPL movement really rubs me the wrong way. I can
understand restrictions to keep a library open and to insure that any
modifications to the library also become open and shared. I can even
understand requiring a commecial license where said open library is
used in a commercial product.
But to purposely try to legally infect every code base touched by the
library in a vain attempt to push a world view makes me want to slap
someone. Taking it to the next level that mere communications between
a client and a server should "infect" the client via the interface
library, the subtle way that MySQL does, is just wrong. "Viral" is
too kind a word for GPL. Computer viruses are less threatening than
tricky contracts and lawyers.
Maybe we'll get lucky and a widely used military system will be found
to use GPL code, at which point the world's governments will pass
legislation to make GPL illegal and unenforceable. That's how low my
opinion is of it.
Daniel L. Taylor
Taylor Design
Computer Consulting & Software Development
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www.taylor-design.com
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