Simon, On 13/04/12 11:07, Simon Holywell wrote: > Also at a higher level. It is GPL licensed which kinda rules out serious > commercial use - see copyleft.
It seems to have become rather trendy to take that position. It is, however, wrong, and quite counter productive. What you are implicitly stating is that businesses only gain value from open source software where they have the ability to convert the work of open source developers into closed proprietary software. And that, of course, is utter bollocks. I suggest you talk to companies like Redhat, Instagram, Github, Acquia, Google, HP, Yahoo!, Facebook, etc. about the commercial non-viability of the GPL, I'm sure they'll be interested to hear your perspective. Regards, Dave -- Dave Lane, Egressive Ltd [email protected] m +64212298147 p +6439633733 http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is human Drupal powers communities: http://drupal.org Use Open Standards: w3.org Software Patents kill innovation -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
