On 10/20/06, Steve Block <steve.block(a)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