Re: GPL and Economics (was Re: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias))

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
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> The GPL is constantly dumping.  That's its nature.

If that is so, then so are the X11 and BSD licenses, as well as anyone
putting code in the public domain. When is the last time you bought
Apache, XFree86, sendmail, bind, etc?
(really bought, not just bought a CD for the distribution cost or
support for one of the above)

Sure you may say that there is a mitigating factor in that one can build
proprietary product on top of one of the above, but as I have shown
before this can only be temporary, unless you manage to kill the
community around your open-source competitor.

Thus by your criteria, the state should take action against people
putting code under the X11 or BSD license, or in the public domain.

And in a similar vein, people should be forbidden from volunteering for
the red-cross, community events, etc. as this is all dumping.


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