RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

<poking head in here fer a sec, and still haven't caught up on entire
thread...>  No, Scott.  The GPL is there to establish a monopoly so that ALL
GPL'd software is free.  See the Free Software Foundation and GNU
principles.  Sure, there's LGPL and many other licenses that are better.

But the purpose of the GPL is to set up a framework where ALL software (and,
eventually, EVERYTHING that can be stored on a hard drive) CAN NOT be SOLD.
This is the stated goals of RMS (Richard M. Stallman) and FSF.   This
doesn't even work well in the Academic Community which He works in.  (He
SURE ain't a software developer, in any sense the term as I know it.)  But
somehow this communist approach to software development has been sold to the
business community, in spite of that.

Not saying the GPL has single-handedly KILLED the market for TRUE INNOVATION
in software, the past decade...  There were other factors, too.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
| Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:58 PM
| To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
| Subject: RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???
|
|
|
| No... the GPL is only there to make sure that you can't "steal" the
| product.