On Monday 03 January 2011 12:26:42 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 18:06 +0530, jtd wrote:
BSD and Apache license is more attractive to company guy because he can find it good for faster development. for example - 4-5 mobile company and one big search engine company work together to create a mobile operating system which is not GPL, now, Other companies can take that code and add their proprietary addons on it to look it more attractive and extra feature.
Except that it gets rooted and shredded and mangled, and the companies look like dumb and dumber. After a year or so of bitrot it really goes to the dogs.
like what has happened to Apache, python, postgresql, perl, php ...
I am talking of cell phones and taking source closed becuse the licence permits it. The "advantage " Narendra is referring to is illusory.
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