On Monday 03 January 2011 12:26:42 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 18:06 +0530, jtd wrote: > > > BSD and Apache license is more attractive to company guy > > > because he can find it good for faster development. > > > for example - 4-5 mobile company and one big search engine > > > company work together to create a mobile operating system which > > > is not GPL, now, Other companies can take that code and add > > > their proprietary addons on it to look it more attractive and > > > extra feature. > > > > Except that it gets rooted and shredded and mangled, and the > > companies > > look like dumb and dumber. After a year or so of bitrot it really > > goes to the dogs. > > like what has happened to Apache, python, postgresql, perl, php ...
I am talking of cell phones and taking source closed becuse the licence permits it. The "advantage " Narendra is referring to is illusory. > -- > regards > KG > http://lawgon.livejournal.com > Coimbatore LUG rox > http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
