Ian Lynch wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:16 -0400, Matthew Bennett wrote:
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I work closely with the Postgres community which uses a Berkley license
and we have more developers working on the project today because
commercial companies are willing to pay developers to make the project
better. Sun does the same thing with OOo. What other companies are
paying developers to work on OOo and how can we increase those numbers?
Then the question is why do commercial companies provide development
support for Postgres but not for OOo?
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Matthew just stepped in it. And Ian frames the proper question.
MB says GPL is trivial issue but it's actually fundamental. Holding
aside the terrible problem license proliferation -- which OOo moving to
GPL would help (see any public comments from Eben Moglen on the issue)
-- developers don't like the possibility/probability of doing work which
can be extended and used by a company for its own/and customers' sole
benefit. It's precisely NON-trivial.
I guarantee that if there is a GPL'd fork of OOo and it is structured
and managed well -- developers would pour in!
-Sam
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