Ayden wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:45 -0900, Stanley Long wrote:
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>>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 ...
>>
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> 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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I tend to disagree. I think windows is the most popular operating system
in the USA. I think there are more Linux users worldwide. Maybe... :-)
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