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Is this about free software?
Is this about free software?
Posted Dec 16, 2006 1:09 UTC (Sat) by emkey (guest, #144)In reply to: Is this about free software? by krishna
Parent article: "BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Infighting and constant fragmentation didn't help the BSD folk any in regards to "market share".
I understand and tend to agree with the arguments as to the GPL's superiority, but I don't think that explains the entire difference in adoption.
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Is this about free software?
Posted Dec 16, 2006 11:20 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Actually it does. Not only BSD camp was hurt by fragmentation itself (a lot of code was in proprietary branches and is lost forever) but the fear of fragmentation was also a big problem.
Actually GPL is great because
1. Anyone have the right to fork the projects and
2. Anyone have the right to merge projects
Both are critical: 1 means that there are will be no lock-in and 2 means there are will be no useless duplicates thus no useless waste of resources.
Novell's agreement is direct attack on 2 - that's why community is so hostile...