MSFT and GNU questions

[David Johnson]

On Thursday June 07 2001 10:05 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:

> Among the questions
> raised was the perennial "where do you turn for advice on the GPL".

One bad thing that happened as a result of this skirmish was that the public 
now identifies Open Source with the GPL. The GPL is not the only OSS license, 
yet every arrow Mundie shot was aimed at the GPL, and every rebuttal from our 
side focused on copyleft. This despite the fact that the three biggest OSS 
projects are not released under the GPL.

This forum should not be merely an advice center for the GPL. There is a 
broad enough range of OSS licenses that anyone who has a problem with the 
strong copyleft can find something else that works for them.

A concrete example: Microsoft doesn't like the GPL so they yell and holler 
and make absurd press releases. As if they had no other choice. Apple doesn't 
like the GPL either, but they quietly use software from a different source 
and don't make any stinks.

-- 
David Johnson
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