Re: Linux... OK but definitely second best

[Jamie <love@cptech.org>]

The issue over the relevant merits of the various licensing methods
should consider the ability of the license to protect the user community
from people hyjacking a public asset and turning it into a monopoly. 
What if Sun had used a GPL type approach for JAVA?   For example.  Jamie



Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> At 12:34 PM 7/25/98 -0700, Charles Behney wrote:
> 
> >Linux is crash proof, because it can run Main Street and Wall Street,
> >without the vagaries of a profit motive upfront. No economic downturn
> >can drive Linux into bankruptcy, and no hostile takeover can impede it.
> 
> The same, and more, is true of FreeBSD. The advantage of FreeBSD is that
> its code can also be used by entrepreneurs as a springboard toward new
> and better things. The existence of BSDI is proof of this.
> 
> I'd hate to see too much software shackled by the GPL. I hope that people
> will wake up to the advantages of TRULY free software.
> 
> --Brett Glass