Re: What about an OS monopoly under GNU license?

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 05:33 PM 3/25/98 -0500, P.A. Petricone wrote:

>GPL is as viable a concept as any other in the spectrum of what software
>is. Strikes me that, in the current industry climate, GPL has more of a
>chance of an enduring life than something grounded in economic competition,
>at the rate things are going.

I would disagree. The rhetoric behind the GPL is a cross between
John Lennon's "Imagine" ("Imagine no possessions....") and a 
general belief that all businesses that make money by publishing 
software without the source code are inherently evil! I don't 
think we could exactly expect the software industry to flourish 
under such a regime.

--Brett