On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:45 -0900, Stanley Long wrote:
> Why I love the GPL
> Saturday January 29, 2005 (08:00 AM GMT)
> By: Joe Barr
> http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/2141242
>
> ... The GPL provides a legal framework for an ever improving, ever free,
> software infrastructure. ... it works.
>
> The GPL makes those freedoms self-perpetuating by requiring that anyone
> who obtains and redistributes GPLd software to release it under the same
> terms.
>
> The Linux kernel ... It's become the little OS who could, the bumblebee
> who could fly, the impossible notion that a bunch of kids on the
> Internet could create the most successful operating system in history ...
>
Seems to me that windows would be the most successful operationg system
in history...
> Freshmeat.net lists almost 36,000 projects covered by more than 50
> different licenses. ... over 68% of those projects are licensed by the GPL.
>
> The GPL is winning. And for that I love it all the more.
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