[plug] Gary ... was Re: stealing

[Chris Caston]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:18, sscott at iinet.net.au wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Tom Hallam wrote:
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> > > > - more open-source.
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> > > But open source relies on CopyRight.  Take a look at the GPL.
> > 
> > Open-source does not equal GPL.  Do you say GNU/Linux would have failed 
> if 
> > it were public-domain instead of copy-lefted? 
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> Yes. My belief is that this is *exactly* the case.
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> Linux is popular because the developer's enjoy the protection of the GPL. 
> Otherwise you're a BSD and nothing more than a code source for Microsoft.
> 
> Think of how far linux has come in comparison to *BSD. 

Yes right now I am thinking about Mac OSX which fits better on the
desktop far better than Linux does. It may have been because of the BSD
licnese that apple chose BSD.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both licences. If your
designing the software you pick the licnese you want.


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