On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Brett Glass wrote:
In short, the (L)GPL will accomplish its stated goals: to put commercial software vendors out of business and to prevent programmers (including CodeWeavers!) from being adequately compensated for their work.
Listen Brett,
I hate to break it to you, but you are barking up the wrong tree. Honestly, how many people do you think buy this type of argument? Can't you see that most Linux distributions _are_ made mostly of xGPLed code, and that hasn't stoped a lot of proprietary companies such as Oracle, SAP, IBM, etc. to release and develop code on this platform?
But really, my question is rethorical -- I expect no answer to that. Quite frankly, I consider arguments on this line of thinking delussional and paranoic, and to my mind they only add noise to the discussion. Let's drop them.
-- Dimi.