On Jul 20, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > inode0 wrote: >> >> Would the world be a better place with no GPL and all software created >> by those who now create code under the GPL putting it into the public >> domain instead? > Microsoft would almost certainly have been displaced years ago by many > other companies building better products containing this code Or... Microsoft would have used that code and used it to control people in just the same way it does with every other piece of software it touches. Isn't this why Microsoft hates the GPL and loves permissive Free Software licenses? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
