You're right that intersections have some unsolvable problems, that once you meet a certain level, the only solution is to eliminate them (or live with congestion).
A system exists which can economically provide destination-to-destination non-stop transportation without any intersections at all. It's called Personal Rapid Transit.
What is winning? I don't see how Sun going out of business is "winning" for OSS. It's not a war, it's an endeavor, and winning for OSS should be creating a great working product. Killing off corporations serves no one, especially not the employees of those companies, who often contribute to OSS. Despite first thoughts, making them unemployed is probably not going to increase their contributions to OSS, as they will have bigger concerns.
I can't see the basis for Wallace's lawsuit, but I do see one case in which the GPL might not be enforceable. That is the case where the GPL is the only license under which software is available. The basic argument behind this is that the GPL can be exclusionary since it requires users to make a big concession by licensing their software under GPL.
This is wholly incompatible with the business model of many potential users. Of course it's easy to fix this by offering a second license that does not have such limitations, but may have other limitations like reasonable costs.
Of course this argument is rather untested, and because it applies to the individual project, it's not something that could ever be tested on a wide scale. Also this argument does not apply at all to most other free software licenses, like BSD or such.
One thing that this argument has in it's favor however is that it applies to the effect of the GPL upon users, and not upon competitors.
When you figure the relative efficiency of Fuel Cells to anything else you need to take into account the whole process from original fuel to final power output. So you need three numbers, the efficiency of converting fuel to power at the power plant, the efficiency of converting power to fuel cells, and then the efficiency of converting fuels cells back to power.
Overall = Power Plant * Fuel Cell Generation * Fuel Cell Consumption
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You're right that intersections have some unsolvable problems, that once you meet a certain level, the only solution is to eliminate them (or live with congestion). A system exists which can economically provide destination-to-destination non-stop transportation without any intersections at all. It's called Personal Rapid Transit.
What is winning? I don't see how Sun going out of business is "winning" for OSS. It's not a war, it's an endeavor, and winning for OSS should be creating a great working product. Killing off corporations serves no one, especially not the employees of those companies, who often contribute to OSS. Despite first thoughts, making them unemployed is probably not going to increase their contributions to OSS, as they will have bigger concerns.
This is wholly incompatible with the business model of many potential users. Of course it's easy to fix this by offering a second license that does not have such limitations, but may have other limitations like reasonable costs.
Of course this argument is rather untested, and because it applies to the individual project, it's not something that could ever be tested on a wide scale. Also this argument does not apply at all to most other free software licenses, like BSD or such.
One thing that this argument has in it's favor however is that it applies to the effect of the GPL upon users, and not upon competitors.
When you figure the relative efficiency of Fuel Cells to anything else you need to take into account the whole process from original fuel to final power output. So you need three numbers, the efficiency of converting fuel to power at the power plant, the efficiency of converting power to fuel cells, and then the efficiency of converting fuels cells back to power. Overall = Power Plant * Fuel Cell Generation * Fuel Cell Consumption