From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <gmack@innerfire.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPL and Nvidia
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:48:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030102204808.AAA9757@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301021216270.2244-100000@innerfire.net>
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:21:59 -0500 (EST), Gerhard Mack wrote:
>There are strong reasons why GPL is a good thing and I prefer it to BSD.
>IMO GPL makes it easier to add code to a common base without risking
>someone taking the code and adding code+theircode and releasing a
>proprietary competing project what's always 3 steps ahead of the open
>source version. For all the complaints it gets the GPL does what it's
>designed to do and that's a good thing.
I don't understand why making proprietary software better and cheaper than
it would otherwise be is a bad thing.
It will be better because it will have a stronger base to build on. It will
be cheaper both because it will be easier to construct and because it will
have to compete with free software that is more similar to it.
And, believe it or not, free software benefits as much from competition as
proprietary software does.
DS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-01 4:37 GPL and Nvidia Hell.Surfers
2003-01-01 7:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-01 16:44 ` Dan Egli
2003-01-02 0:33 ` Paul Jakma
2003-01-02 11:19 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-01-02 17:21 ` Gerhard Mack
2003-01-02 20:48 ` David Schwartz [this message]
2003-01-02 21:26 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-03 5:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-03 9:17 ` Helge Hafting
2003-01-02 21:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-02 21:56 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-02 21:46 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-01-02 22:39 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-01-02 23:40 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-01-01 16:35 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-01 18:05 Hell.Surfers
2003-01-02 21:44 ` Bill Davidsen
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