On 18/07/10 19:11, SteveC wrote:
The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first
basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute
anything (in effect make their business easier) and the second think it would
be nuts because then the project wouldn't have long term growth potential and
would probably die and fragment like BSD did etc etc etc.
I'd count the second group as the brighter ones.
And yet BSD continues to be maintained and updated, while coexisting
with a similar share-alike project (Linux). So that shows how much most
companies know. I don't see BSD as much more or less fragmented than
linux (given the whole Google/Android kernel branch being left to rot.)
Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply to
"produced works" - that would encourage companies to give back.
TimSC
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