From: campo@mailbox.difi.unipi.it
Subject: Re: future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad)
Date: 1998/04/17
Date: 1998-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6h7b30$5af$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3533DD6A.B2EB8D16@kla-tencor.com
In article <3533DD6A.B2EB8D16@kla-tencor.com>,
David Masterson <David.Masterson@kla-tencor.com> wrote:
> Fah! This is a smokescreen that should be obvious by now. GPL'd
> software is not conducive to building a software development business
> around. Over the years of watching the rise of the GNU Manifesto and
> GPL'd software, I've come to the following conclusions:
[snip]
GPL'd software leads to competition; hoarded software leads to monopolistic
practices. It may be bad for a few (or just one :) giant\x12corporation, but
it can be much better for end users (I won't write "consumers") and for
smaller, dynamic enterprises.
[mega snip]
> The current interest in "free" software is largely due to a backlash
> against Microsoft. If Microsoft succeeds in quelling this backlash,
> then the fervor for "free" software will die down (it won't go away) and
> so will the progress that GPL'd software is making.
The current *hype* in free software (a very recent phenomenon) may be due
to a backlash against Microsoft. But the *interest* in free software has
a much deeper ground. Now that complete, high-quality free software
systems are available and popular, they spread on their own merit; not
only technical merit, relying too much on hoardware *is* dangerous.
--
Massimo Campostrini,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-08 0:00 Ada generics are bad Glenden Lee
1998-04-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-04-09 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-04-13 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-04-13 0:00 ` future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad) Fergus Henderson
1998-04-14 0:00 ` David Masterson
1998-04-16 0:00 ` David Kastrup
1998-04-16 0:00 ` David Masterson
1998-04-17 0:00 ` David Kastrup
1998-04-17 0:00 ` campo [this message]
1998-04-16 0:00 ` Tim Smith
1998-04-17 0:00 ` Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Bill Gribble
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1998-04-21 0:00 ` William Tanksley
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Ada generics are bad Christopher Green
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-04-15 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Al Christians
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