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DBX_5:
sorry but I appearantly have wrecked this thread.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: xyle_one ---If you don't like the direction a certain software package is heading, you can take it and do whatever you want with it, on your own terms.
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I assume, by "on your own terms", you mean "by the terms of the General Public License", right? ;)
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---I assume, by "on your own terms", you mean "by the terms of the General Public License", right? ;)
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If your own terms don't comply with the GPL, then, then, then...
What's wrong with the GPL?
Aloone_Jonez:
It makes it harder to make money as it doesn't protect your code and algorithms from the competition and there's no way of forcing people to pay to use your software. I can think of plenty of pieces of software that wouln'd be as good if they'd been released under the GPL and I certainly wouldn't relese a GPL program if I wanted to make serious money.
ksym:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---What's wrong with the GPL?
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Nothing wrong specifically ...
It is just that technological superiority in computer software businesses must be protected by distributing software as binaries. Otherwise anybody can copy the code, and make a competing product.
And since most software businesses make money by selling closed-source binary software distributions, then GPL won't stand a chance in the enterprise ...
The only way GPL can be used in the enterprise is with the de-facto technologies, like HTML/XHTML clients/servers (Apache), OpenGL (mesa, SDL), X-window system (X.org, XFree86) ...
These de-facto software technologies have been OPENLY STANDARDIZED, and so one can implement a conforming application as open source project.
But still most closed source apps like Microsoft Office, Corel products, Adobe products, Macromedia Flash ... they all depend on their proprietary formats and the apps that run/create them. Unless all their relevant protocols and fileformats are TOTALLY standardized in the open, no really good GPL software can be created to compete with their products. And so they can make money by selling software ...
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