[Ilugc] We Don't Need the GPL Anymore
- From: cyborg4k@xxxxxxxxx (Shakthi Kannan)
- Date: Fri Jul 1 20:51:08 2005
Hi,
--- peevee <peevee.chaitanya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But as ESR says, if removing such an imposition
helps in development of
opensource,,, then its good doing like that ,
When one uses free software and builds on that, he/she
spends useful man hours in creating extensible or more
productive software. These ideas, if released, will in
turn help generate more ideas amongst fellow
programmers. When a group of people continue to work
like this, it gives an ambience where people have the
freedom, and liberty to think differently. Everyone is
not alike. So, when you share ideas, you explore
different areas of the problem space for obtaining
multiple solutions to a given problem. Instead, if you
work on a free software and you provide an
extension/new feature and _not_ release it:
1. you will not get the useful man-hour testing from
the programmers of the community.
2. you will not know if there are better solutions or
methods in solving the problem.
3. you may have bugs that you or your team may never
know.
As the sole ideology of open source is to promote
its concept.
Unless there is collaboration, interactivity, and
freedom in exchanging ideas, there is no scope for
development or progress.
Just my thoughts,
SK
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