[WikiEN-l] good example of overuse of {{fact}}

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Fri Oct 20 12:09:45 UTC 2006


On 10/20/06, Steve Block <steve.block at 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



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