Sermo Malifer <sermomali...@noemail.com> writes: > amicus_curious wrote: >> >> "Rjack" <u...@example.net> wrote in message >> news:zdwdnaunf5_biudunz2dnuvz_hydn...@giganews.com... >>> >>> THE GPL IS THE BEST FRIEND MICROSOFT EVER HAD. Open source >>> advocates are ideologically blinded to these facts. >>> >> That is an interesting spin to the issue! >> >> The reality is that the GPL has no practical effect on anything of >> any importance in terms of market development. One could, perhaps, >> take GPL code and attempt to create a new software product by >> extending the GPL source in some useful way, but, if you think about >> it more deeply, that is ever so unlikely to be successful. > > Or you could create software that runs on a GPL OS but that is not > derived from its source code. > >> For example, say you could safely, without getting ground up in the >> gears of the SFLC or FSF, hijack the source code for Open Office or >> Gimp or even Linux itself. > > IOW, if you could steal somebody else's work and pass it off as your own. > >> If you try to sell it as a product by itself, with nothing added, >> you are going to fail, since the product is already available at >> essentially zero cost and you have nothing to differentiate >> yourself. > > IOW, you can't get away with stealing somebody else's work and passing > it off as your own.
Not "IOW" at all. It doesn't take much imagination to see the stuff being stolen and used as a BASE for an improved version. You sound as much of a dumb arse as Phil Da Lick on this subject. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
