begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:46:21PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > Imagine the uproar of $despised_corporation took code out of the > > public domain and relicensed it with their $oppressive_license -- there > > would be an uproar. Cries of "theft!" would ring out. Passionate > > denunciations would be posted to slashdot. The skies would shake with > > the wrath of the assembled geeks.... > > But companies do this all the time and nobody cares. There isn't much of > a difference between your example and making BSD code proprietary. Oh, some people care... there's plenty of frothing. It's just that nobody prone to spraying spittle all over the monitor cares.
> > Pure speculative (and wishful) thinking, *I* think. > > Perhaps. Either way, arguing over the goodness of the BSD license vs the > GPL license is rather like arguing over whether the toilet paper should > go over the top of the roll or under the bottom. At least you have > toilet paper. As opposed to Sears-Roebuck catalogs? :) -Stewart "Lots of very thin pages. And something to look at, too." Stremler
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