[Ilugc] Is the proprietary camp winning ?
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Fri Oct 13 06:12:31 2006
On 12-Oct-06, at 7:19 PM, Krishna P wrote:
Its simple, I agree with it.
Take linux it is surviving because of its GPL license with copy left
feature, unlike *BSD many part of code are taken by properitary
companies,
and has become proprietary.
how do you say it has become proprietary? Arent those parts still
used by BSD? Or is BSD prevented from using them? I listened to Eben
Moglen the other day and he said something like this: If i have money
and you dont, and i give you money, then you have money and i dont.
If I have knowledge and you dont, and i give you knowledge, we both
have knowledge. Or, if i have source code and you dont, and i give
you my source code, then we both have source code, [even if you hide
yours from the world.] The part in square brackets is my own addition.
As far as i can see, *BSD is surviving also, as are postgresql, sqlite
(public domain), apache, subversion, zope, plone, python, php and
thousands of other packages, in spite of the fact that they have bsd-
style licenses.
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regards
kg
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