| Weblog: | Open Source, Innovation, and IP | |
| Subject: | Re: why GPL? | |
| Date: | 2005-02-10 00:18:42 | |
| From: | jwenting | |
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Response to: Re: why GPL?
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Those companies don't extend or use those GPL'd products in their own products (at least not at the scale you seem to think). They may sell Linux distributions, but their own versions with large amounts of custom (non-GPL, often not OS) products added in. GPL effectively makes it impossible to ever make a dime of your work, except if you happen to be lucky enough to get a support contract (instead of the person downloading it for free just downloading it for free and asking his hacker friend to help him). GPL isn't a sharp blade, it's a blunt axe.
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