GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN)

GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN)

Posted Jan 29, 2007 17:05 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN) by sbergman27
Parent article: GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN)

Fourteen years ago, I was naive enough to think that the Internet was going to give us all the ability to communicate with each other and make the world a wonderful place for everyone.

Lots of people wished that. In earlier times, people thought that the balloon, dynamite, the tank, nuclear weapons and even the telephone and radio would 'naturally end war' because everyone could communicate so of course they'd all agree.

It seems to be easy for techies to forget that people have differing goals (since we're all such nice people, doncha know), and that some people have goals such as 'maximize my personal power base' that contradict everyone else's.

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