On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:07 +0530, steve wrote: > > not necessarily - a lot of people just do not touch GPL code - they > > prefer to contribute code to projects with a more free license. > > define 'lot'. Judging by pure numbers /maybe/ GPL projects are lesser > than those > licensed under a <sarcasm>more free</sarcasm> license but judging by > the *rate* > of improvement GPL projects tend to move much more faster (which > proves what I > said about the engineering suitability of the GPL too). -- Of course > you have to > compare apples to apples (eg: Linux to *BSD) not apples to oranges > (eg: Python > to Linux).
for your information, the growth of linux is not due to the license - it is due to the methodology. I do not know much about the BSD operating system and it's history - I am talking about the BSD license. And if you will really want to compare, I suggest you compare BSD OS with the quintessential GPL project - GNU hurd. or even better, why not compare linux to hurd? same license - why not the same speed of development? -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
