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Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers?

Posted by Zonk on from the get-thee-hence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Via Wired, a blog post in which BMC Software's Whurley and Google's Greg Stein agree that the GPL v3 is currently on a path that will alienate developers. Stein has an interesting theory called 'license pressure' which is similar to 'pricing pressure'. 'Due to pressure from developers, all software is moving towards permissive licensing" translation, the GPL and developers are moving in opposite directions ... Developers care about the licenses on the software they use and incorporate into their projects, they like permissive licenses, and they will increasingly demand permissive licenses.'"

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  1. Re:FUD from a Microsoft shill by Jerry · · Score: 1, Troll

    Exactly!

    As an example of this kind of marketing manipulation consult "The Submarine" by Paul Graham.
    http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

    April 2005

    "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.

    Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

    The source of this FUD is, no doubt, Microsoft's PR firm.

    --

    Running with Linux for over 20 years!

  2. Re:Translation by firewood · · Score: 0, Troll
    We would like to make a profit from open source software and not return anything to the community.

    We would like to profit from OSS, but only return something we consider of lesser or equal value, same as with any other rational business exchange. This isn't true, so we end up rewriting stuff.

    Or we would like to return stuff, but the source rights to stuff we currently use isn't ours to return (licensed libraries, etc.), so we end up rewriting stuff (of one license or another).

    In either case, the GPL causes us to waste time that BSD/MPL type licenses don't.