[gentoo-user] Re: License issues [was:Daniel Robbins' come back ?]

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu <at> unlimitedmail.org> writes:


> What you're saying here is not a secret, in fact these are all more or 
> less well-known facts. Yes, they probably did violate some open source 
> license. However, I don't see how having had closed source products 
> would have prevented them from doing what they wanted to do anyway.
> And furthermore, what does all this have to do with "making money with 
> open source"?


I just do not see the harm in letting a small (sub 1 million dollar company)
build a product and not provide any details or what they did or
how they did it. In the end, their success is more likely related
to how slick their marketing campaign is  or how well conceived the
product/service is or how good their support is or some other twist.

The GPL goes a long way to discouraging/preventing many of the serfs 
from ever trying.... IMHO. I believe that the GPL is the spawn of satan.
I think the 'serfs' (the greater gentoo community) would be better
off with a BSD style license related to Gentoo technologies and 
still use GPL software, as the individual chooses. After all, most
of the BSD variants and derivatives (except those RTOS that large
corporations use in some of their products)  Still manage to use
GPL software.

Obviously, you think that GPL is a panacea. OK we agree to disagree.


seeya


James




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