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Title: ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"
Post by: toadlife on 3 July 2005, 01:20

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html)

Discuss.

Title: Re: ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"
Post by: WMD on 3 July 2005, 03:50

I can't decide...I don't fully understand the opposition's opinion on the GPL.  What makes companies nervous about it?  How many of them need to do work that requires releasing source code?  There's already quite a bit of proprietary software for Linux and no source is needed.  I guess I'm missing something; what is it?