Against the GPL

This is another good but perhaps slightly biased look at the GPL. I don't appreciate any extremes and GPL is as extreme as completely closed software licenses in my opinion. It could be stated that a middle of the road may be good - again - commercialise for a wee while then open completely - not GPL but more BSD / MIT type licenses.

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Here's my house, I am ready for global warming flooding and anything else. I just cast the lines off and I am gone, as long as I have food and water and a wee bit of wind I am laughing.

Thats Troon Yacht Haven the boats in and where I usually am found.

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I am pretty sure Google will change the world more than it has so far. I loved the money program on BBC about them. Its shows how well America is set up for innovation, am I jealous

Absolutely !

Am I glad there there, yes the world will be better with Google there to help us all.

Well done to the Google team - their motto

Dont be evil

Really works

Software is not innovation - GPL is BAD

Or so it would seem to many

We have commercial closed source - were all grown up enough now to not accept this form of control and deceit in our society.

We have GPL code - good as it's open but bad in certain circumstance's.
i.e
You need to develop something in your own time and therefor money. You decide to sell the code for a while to recoup expenses etc. You cant use GPL code to do this. Big problem.

I suggest we have a time limited OK here and basically allow use of GPL code in ANY software system, but after a period of say 12-18 months all the codebase becomes GPL.

Time limited commercialisation to allow innovation - it would work.

BSD is different - it can be used form almost everything but commercial companies steal such code and use it and close it up. That's useless, although for now single developer's would use this in a way as described above.

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