On Tue, 06 November 2001, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>    someone can link with your code and make a proprietary program, 
> you gain very little, the community looses in general for another 
> proprietary piece of software was born.

gads!!! 

how can open source lose anything from a new proprietary program???
as long as the license prevents a proprietary fork, 
who cares if its linked with a proprietary program?!?!

If the proprietary program has a wide enough user base, 
someone can eventually get around to making
an open source version of it if they so desire.

The measure of open-source success is
based solely on the number of people using
open source code.

Note, you do not then take this number and subtract 
the number of people using proprietary code.
The existence of proprietary code is neither a 
gain nor loss to open-source code.

Proprietary code is not a hindrance to 
open-source. And if proprietary code uses
some open-source code, that adds to the total
number of poeple using the open-soruce code.

the more people that use open-soruce, the better.

where do you measure this as a "loss"???

the more I listen, the more I hear subjective opinions
being passed off as objective, concrete truths.

Greg







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