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VX30 Ad-Stats Code Online
tmk writes "Drunkenblog has done it again. After deconstructing Maui X-Stream has GPL Violations with reproducable proof, he put a copy of the VX30 Ad-Stats source online. There is also a copy of the phpAdsNew source to compare. Drunkenbatman
says 'This is a community problem, and it's pretty much up to you.'"
Or they could do a Stallman and say "send us $80,000 and we'll give you the source-code on an 8 inch tape"...
I know I'm just a noob, but could someone please explain to me who enforces the GPL, and why so many companies shamelessly violate it?
You slashdotters are no better than MXS. You guys all want "open source", which means you don't want to pay a single red cent for any software you steal. Same goes for music, movies, whatever. Bittorrent, Morpheus, all of it, just proves you guys are just a bunch of whining thieves that want everything for free.
I agree to some extent that there are some people stealing stuff from "Open Source", without contributing to OSS, either monetorily or in any other way. And the bottomline is "It is bad".
how can it possibly be stealing? Stealing would mean that something was actually taken (a CD is stolen and that CD is no longer there). Even if someone uses OSS in a closed source application, the original source is still there and available to anyone that wants it.
By making the stuff closed source, the comapny is choosing to get rid of all advantages coming from the software development process of OSS. Sooner or later, it will dawn to them. Meanwhile the OSS movement looks good, motivated towards providing great solutions, instead of finding reasons to harass some small companies.
all the advantages? what advantages? Using Open source in a commercial project means almost no hope of a profit. The binaries can easily be created from the source code and given out for free (which will almost certainly happen if it gets popular enough). Essentially they would be competing with themselves (and the competition has a price tag of $0). Commerical software companies should avoid the GNU license like the plague.