-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 1. The original poster was asking about Java from web application perspective i.e using servlets, jsp. So PHP can be an alternative to it. Obviously it can't be alternative in your case if you are developing standalone applications. 2. GPL version 2 doesn't enforce the open source thing for web applications because you are not actually distributing software but providing services. 3. GPL version 3 will enforce the same in future. 4. Libraries are not GPLed. They are LGPLed. 5. You don't link your programs to GPLed kernel or gui. You link to LGPLed ui libraries. 6. I don't understand what has ASP.NET to do with FUD about GPL 7. GPL never says that your work doesn't belong to you. It just asks you not to say that someone else's work belongs to you. 8. You can sure develop applications on Windows and then try to provide fixes for the crashes in your application that were not at all your developers fault but of the underlying OS. 9. There are no legal headaches associated with GPL if you understand it correctly. Legal headaches come into picture only when you want to take everything and run away, in other words you steal code. 10. At last if you want to avoid all the GPL and LGPL headaches (according to you) then use BSD.
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