----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Youngmeister" <[email protected]>
> If you guys still think about ideas as things that can be stolen, > perhaps you should check out the open source movement. Here's a good > reference: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source Aw, c'mon, Peter. No strawmen; it's late. The reasons why many programmers prefer GPL to BSD -- to keep the work they've invested long hours in for free from being submerged in someone's commercial project with no recompense to them -- which GPL forbids and BSD does not -- is widely understoood. Myself, I'm firmly convinced after 30 years in this business, that, for all its faults, the choice of the GPL by Linus changed the face of computing (and damned near everything else) just a much as the Apollo project's investment in microelectronics gave us all PCs to run them on in the first place. You're welcome to disagree (though not on this list; there are lots of places better suited to license advocacy), but it would probably be good not to scoff at people for holding that view. 'Specially when you're using their code. :-) Cheers, -- jra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
