On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:09:24 Shlomi Fish wrote: > So why am I still sticking with the MIT/X11? The main reason I think is > that as an open-source programmer, I'm not interested in worrying about how > people abuse my code. I don't like Apple, and am not fond of many Microsoft > products. But I'm not interested to prevent Apple or Microsoft or any other > developer of commercial and/or proprietary software for Windows or Mac OS X > or the iPhone or whatever from using my code in their projects.
Even if they do monopolistic things with your code? See this: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137291/Mac_clone_maker_sues_Apple_over_Snow_Leopard I think the preceding article is one of the strongest arguments for copyleft I've ever seen. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
