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

At 11:02 PM 6/12/2002, Francois Gouget wrote:
  
>On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
>[...]
>> 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.

Not true. Apple shows no sign of dying.

--Brett Glass