gpl backlash?

[Wilfredo Sanchez]

| I disagree -- it looks like people are starting to see the benefits of 
| getting their end users to fix bugs.  Which can be a different animal 
| from open source entirely.

  Not entirely.  I don't mind paying for software.  What kills me is  
"that damned bug that's been there forever and why don't they fix it  
it's so easy if only I could get the code".  There is nothing wrong  
with end users being able to fix bugs, and there is nothing wrong  
with a business realizing that this can be mutually beneficial.

| [note: I'm not sure if I agree with the APSL but I'm not flaming it 
| here; I'm trying to push the idea that there are different degrees of 
| freedom to software, and I happen to like the highest degree possible] 

  The APSL is new.  I personally think it will need to evolve  
further, but it's pretty good for where we are today.

| Do you mean by this that if the GPL were more specific in its
| allowances and prohibitions, it would make for more acceptance and a 
| better license?

  Most certainly.  For starters, it should define "derived work" if  
it's going to use that term in its requirements.

| The fastest way to push a standard out is to give people the code to 
| implement the standard, so that it will work with some minor tweaks and 
| studying.  It looks to me like X won this way

  Yeah, sometimes this backfires.

| On a side note, has anyone been receiving multiple copies of  
messages?  I
| received the message I'm responding to *thrice*.

  Not I.

	-Fred

#include <std_disclaimer.h> /* opinion(Fred) != opinion(Apple) */

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       Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez at apple.com
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          Technical Lead, Darwin Project
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