Re: Again: list of advantages of the xGPL

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:45, Roland wrote:

> At 09:29 AM 6/13/02 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:27, Roland wrote:
> >
> > > At 09:09 AM 6/13/02 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:01, Roland wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > At 07:44 AM 6/13/02 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> > > > > >As I see it, GNU licenses try to get people to share by using the law
> > > > > >while BSD licenses try to get people to share by example.  I rather
> > > > > >set an example for people to follow and have them follow than force
> > > > > >them into it.  The problem with forcing people into it is that you
> > > > > >are not
> > > > >
> > > > > I wonder if you live in the same world as I...
> > > >
> > > >I do.  It may be hard to set an example, but I never claimed it was.
> > > >You can choose an easy way (GPL) or a hard way (BSDL).  I just think
> > > >the hard way is better in the long term.
> > >
> > > The point I was trying to make is not if its hard or easy, but if it
> > > will have any effect at all. First I doubt that most people will
> > > understand you are giving an example. Even if you do I wonder if they
> > > will follow it. At least I don't know any case where a company
> > > followed this example. Usually when they released the code it was in
> > > their own interest...
> >
> >Apple did.  In the case of Apple, they released it without any interest
> >for themselves.  It only would help others to release it, but they did
> >anyway.
>
> Do you mean the non-strategic code of the OS X? Well in that case I think
> they released it to benefit from the improvements made...this is obvious...

Tests tools are not necessarily non-strategic.  A good test tool can
show all the bad spots that need fixing.   With the release of the code,
FreeBSD and Linux did improve their NFS implementations.  This made the
competitors (in some ways) to OS X better.  It probably would have been
to Apple's advantage to withhold that tool.

Sean
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