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Leaving the GPL Behind

Posted by kdawson on from the one-license-to-rule-them-all dept.

olddotter points out a story up at Yahoo Tech on companies' decisions to distance themselves from the GPL. "Before deciding to pull away from GPL, Haynie says Appcelerator surveyed some two dozen software vendors working within the same general market space. To his surprise, Haynie saw that only one was using a GPL variant. 'Everybody else, hands down, was MIT, Apache, or New BSD,' he says. 'The proponents of GPL like to tell people that the world only needs one open source license, and I think that's actually, frankly, just a flat-out dumb position,' says Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, one of the many organizations now offering an open source license with more generous commercial terms than GPL."

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  1. Re:who gives a fuck? by V!NCENT · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's exactly this type of shit that makes you look like a faggot.

    Why is this not getting modded as flamebait?

    There is no "software war".

    Yes there is. But if it aint so then why even bother repleying if you're so convinced it aint so?

    I'm sorry your life isn't as exciting as you want it to be, but entraining a fantasy where you bring software freedom to the world isn't the answer either.

    You think that I am doing this so I can feel like some sort of hero?! Rofl. Flamebait? Huh?

    Seriously, you should be embarrassed, but it takes real courage to look in the mirror.

    BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    Time to grow up, kid.

    I'm not a kid anymore, kiddo.

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  2. Re:who gives a fuck? by V!NCENT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't understand your hate for open Open Source. Can you give me the source for all the old games that I have that do not work under any current version of Windows anymore? No? Oh shit, I guess I'll have to use Wine. Thank you very much, asshole.

    Go yerk off to Steve Ballmer and/or Steve Jobs. Oh wait, doesn't that make you gay? Ahhhhh...

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  3. Re:who gives a fuck? by dave87656 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's exactly this type of shit that makes you look like a faggot.

    Why is this not getting modded as flamebait?

    Most people just ignore the uninformed who are so confused and afraid of the things they don't know or understand that they just start calling people faggots if they don't toe the party line.

    We must have compassion. The trailer park where he lived was too far from the school.