On 10/20/06, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
Don't fancy putting it back in, do you?
Some of the most successful OSS technology is licensed under the GNU General Public License or GPL. The GPL mandates that any software that incorporates source code already licensed under the GPL will itself become subject to the GPL. When the resulting software product is distributed, its creator must make the entire source code base freely available to everyone, at no additional charge. This viral aspect of the GPL poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it. It also fundamentally undermines the independent commercial software sector because it effectively makes it impossible to distribute software on a basis where recipients pay for the product rather than just the cost of distribution.
Speech Transcript - Craig Mundie, The New York University Stern School of Business
Prepared Text of Remarks by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice President The Commercial Software Model The New York University Stern School of Business May 3, 2001
No, I don't. Craig Mundie, and/or Microsoft, is hardly "critics often". Perhaps there is a time and a place for the use of the phrase "critics often" in a sentence in Wikipedia, but I don't see any evidence that this is one of them.
Anthony