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Free vs. Open
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| rittmey Nov 28, 2005 7:56 AM EST |
Reading this article and recalling Agassi and the very latest babble of Gates (well he always talked along that line) I wonder whether there is a campaign under way which tries to discredit free software (and especially the GPL) while praising the open source-movement. Well I can imagine the likes of IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and other big companies loving the Apache, BSD, Mozilla and eclipse-licenses which grant them the right to take the code and still keep everything they build upon it closed and proprietary - which of course is exactly the reason I would always prefer the GPL for projects I contribute to. [ Whoa. While previewing I noticed that even the spellchecker of this forum doesn't approve of the GPL ;-) ] Is it really a new trend of arguing or has it been going on for much longer and I only just realized it? Since some historically very well versed people are among us, I'd really like to know. |
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