Is this about free software?

Posted Dec 16, 2006 11:20 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Is this about free software? by emkey
Parent article: "BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista

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...