Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Florian Diesch]

"Andrew Zajac" <arzajac at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/13/06, Olafur Arason <olafra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     See:
>     http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1975848,00.asp
>
>  
> Quote:
> "A commercial company has to build intellectual property, while the GPL, by its
> very nature, does not allow intellectual property to be built, making the two
> approaches fundamentally incompatible, Muglia said. "

Which is just wrong. The GPL is there to protect your intellectual property.
Ever tought why Microsoft doesn't say anything agains BSD-style licenses?


> It's the kiss of death again.  You can't do free-libre and make money, I guess.

Companies like Sun, IBM, Novell, HP, ... are investing in FOSS just
because they have too much money? RedHat doesn't make any money? Troll
Tech lost money when releasing Qt under GPL? Sun made OpenOffice and
OpenSolaris FOSS becausdeb they are idealists? Doesn't sound that
convincing for me.


> Free-libre has to be non-commercial?  You need to build IP to make money?

One of the big problems when selling software is to find someone to buy
it. Giving your software away for free and selling support may get you
more money.



   Florian
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