[GNUz] Another interesting discussion ...

[Rik Tindall]

A very clear 'post-GNU/GPL' outlook presented here. I wonder if it has 
much weight behind it?

There's always the opposing point of view:

http://www.boalt.org

Rik

Jim Cheetham wrote:

> Slashdot again ...
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/22/1338242&tid=163&tid=218
> "BusinessWeek has an article about the perceived threat of patents to 
> linux, citing the SCO case, the opening of OSRM, and the Munich 
> situation as evidence for the veracity of their conclusion that Linux 
> isn't safe. Their solution? Relicense to the BSD license or the 
> Mozilla license."
>
> Amongst the many Score:5 articles emerges the point that although the 
> GPL isn't "free", it does enforce a continuing "almost-free" 
> marketplace. The BSD license is "free", and because of that people 
> like Microsoft take BSD-licensed code and profit from it.
>
> -jim