On 29-Dec-06, at 1:01 PM, jtd wrote:
subverted. Linux and the entire FOSS ecosystem has flourished because of the GPL and it's staunch defendants. All the others would have been academic curiosities, milked for their freebie technology and ditched at the first opportunity.
i seriously doubt this - GPL is just one strand in the web - a big important one, but nonetheless one of many