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

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Brett Glass wrote:
[...]
> >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.

And they have a long history of realeasing products built on
top of a BSD OS. Whooops, wait, not this is pretty recent.

And they don't sell any proprietary hardware either. Whoopsie, wait they
do!


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