New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:09:24 Shlomi Fish wrote:

> So why am I still sticking with the MIT/X11? The main reason I think is
> that as an open-source programmer, I'm not interested in worrying about how
> people abuse my code. I don't like Apple, and am not fond of many Microsoft
> products. But I'm not interested to prevent Apple or Microsoft or any other
> developer of commercial and/or proprietary software for Windows or Mac OS X
> or the iPhone or whatever from using my code in their projects. 

Even if they do monopolistic things with your code? See this:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137291/Mac_clone_maker_sues_Apple_over_Snow_Leopard

I think the preceding article is one of the strongest arguments for copyleft 
I've ever seen.

SteveT
 
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