An explanation of the difficulty of solving licenseproliferation in one sentence

[Fink, Martin R]

>From Glen's message....
> W.r.t. license proliferation, I found Marten Mickos' keynote comment
at
> LinuxWorld interesting (paraphrased): "1000 commercial packages have
1000
> licenses, 1000 open source packages have 50 licenses. This is success,
not
> failure, and doesn't need to be fixed."

If Marten did in fact say this, then the statement needs clarifying:
"1000 commercial packages have 1000 (BINARY) licenses, 1000 open source
packages have 58 (SOURCE) licenses."  The difference is dramatic and
significant.  Open source is about sharing at the source level....

Martin