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GPL vs. Skype Back In Court
mollyhackit writes "Hackaday reports that the GPL vs Skype case is going back to court today. This as an appeal to the court's decision Slashdot reported last July. The original case was brought against Skype for the Linux based SMC Skype WiFi phone. The court upheld the GPLv2 and decided that Skype had not gone far enough in meeting section 3 which details how to provide the original source. This time around Skype is apparently trying to argue that the GPL violates anti-trust regulations."
No. If, hypothetically, the GPL became invalidated for some reason, all GPL code would revert to the public domain.
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With GPL, a single product can monopolize the market. The community (or, more exactly, the largest organized group within community, e.g. a company like RedHat) will prevent smaller companies trying to "reinvent the wheel" with alternative (perhaps closed-source) products from joining the market.
If the whole world turns GPL, it will be the same collective labour we had in USSR (I'm Russian) when no one cares about the things being done and everyone "owns" everything (in theory), but only ones having real power (aforementioned Red Hat) will shape the development. How easy is it to create a competition to, say, gcc?
GPL is a way to stagnation.
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