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56.2% of Software Developers use Open Source
cfelde writes " 56.2% of software developers use open source components by ZDNet's ZDNet -- Evans Data has found a rising trend toward including open source modules in software development world. While 38.1% said they used OSS modules in their applications in Spring of 2001, in the most recent survey, 56.2% said they had."
It's not about having or using open sourced applications. It's about incorporating open sourced modules in their own projects.
To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ~ h2g2
I usually don't respond to AC trolls, but I'd like to point out that the vast majority of files SCO pointed out as "proof" of infringement were BSD-licensed. So those stacks and stacks of listings, that preponderance of code? Yeah. That represents a *portion* of BSD-licensed contribution to the GPL community. Think about it.
Being the sole author or my software allows me to dual license it. If somebody wants to use my code in a closed-source project, I can grant them a seperate license in exchange for a fee.
And that is why anyone with half a brain should never contribute to your project, because that would mean you take their code too, and sell it, while they can't do it.
And in GPLing a project that no one should contribute too, defeats the purpose of the GPL. So the GPL, by allowing a dual-license trap, is the smartest choice for the developer dual-licensing, but the dumbest choice for the contributors, who must, in practice must assign their copyright to others.
Only the BSD license allows fair play.
Main difference between the BSD license and the GPL license: one is from California and the other is from Massachusetts
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html also explains this. I.e. that using the GPL for a unique library is preferred by the FSF *because* of the problems it causes for non-GPLed projects.