Is GPL Licensing In Decline?

GMGruman writes "Simon Phipps writes, "As Apache licenses proliferate, two warring camps have formed over whether the GPL is or isn't falling out of favor in favor of the Apache License." But as he explores the issues on both sides, he shows how the binary thinking on the issue is misplaced, and that the truth is more nuanced, with Apache License gaining in commercially focused efforts but GPL appearing to increase in software-freedom-oriented efforts. In other words, it depends on the style of open source."

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Re:Deja Vu

[Barbara, not Barbie]

The only shill here is you - I've been using linux since slackware 3x, and finally decided this month that it's simply not worth wasting any more of my time as a primary OS, not when every update breaks something. So I dug out the old XP disk, and all my problems disappeared. Right now, I use a knoppix disk to surf the net, set to save a persistent overlay image of my data on one drive, because this way no update can hose my data like opensuse did, or render the machine unbootable, like fedora did, or leak memory like crazy, like both fedora and debian did.

All linux distros are ultimately craptops in comparison. And that's sad. 15 years using linux, and in the end it was a waste of time and energy. So when people ask, now I tell them to get a mac, or if its a server, to run freebsd, which doesn't curl up in an ugly ball and die when you have to log in remotely to a machine 500 miles away and upgrade from, for example, version 4.7 to version 7.0 without rebooting more than once, and works with no problems after, so the machine is off-line less than 30 seconds total.

It makes even the latest linux look like a consumer-level toy OS in comparison, and until everyone takes the need for a stable ABI and a proper upgrade process as the absolute minimum, that won't change.