I wrote: > The competitors you created in step one can create competing GPL > versions with the same features.
David Kastrup writes: > That's a nice theory. In practice, you can't hope to keep pace with the > original authors in almost any case unless development died altogether or > they left. We are talking about the main line going closed-source. That provides both motive and opportunity. Consider X. > Many projects don't survive the original authors leaving (or even just > aging) even without forking or competition. If no one cares then it doesn't matter, does it? If Open Office went closed-source many people would care, and many of them would be in a position to do something about it. Again, consider X. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
