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I cant think of some brillant ideas that commercial products will definitely
crash the open source products if it can deliver services as what the
commercial does. IPR protection is highly regarded, that is the presence
of GPL and is necessary for open source not to be copied by its commercial
competitors. The question is, is the open source software has its competitive
uniqueness over the commercial products? If yes then GPL is in the right
way, but if not then better yet to improved first and protect them later
on.
Open source products composed of people in the world if not in a big
organization, working and trying to transcend the capabilities of such
commercial products.
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:52:38 -0700 shogunx
<shogunx(_at_)sleekfreak(_dot_)ath(_dot_)cx>
wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
This strikes me as oversimplistic. What if a commercial enterprise
wanted to license its IPR in such a way that it put no constraints
on
open source, but retained constraints on commercial competitors?
I'm
not sure you can get around a technical mandate for some kind
of
license and still retain those options. -- Nathaniel
I can cite an example of a commercial enterprise with copyrighted
GPL'd
products who has some emasures to prevent this. They sell clusters,
and
distribute the source code directly only to customers. If you are
an
open source programmer, get to know them, and ask nicely, they will
give
you a copy for your purposes... i.e. if you want to "roll your own"
cluster. One could also probably acquire a copy from one of their
customers, but a vast majority of their solution is hardware also,
in the
form of master node and diskless processing nodes.
On Oct 13, 2004, at 10:55 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Sam Hartman <hartmans(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu>:
I think it would be wonderful if the free software community
could
come to a consensus about what their requirements are.
That's not hard. We need licensing conditions that don't require
us
to either pay royalties or sign legal papers, and which don't
inhibit
re-use of the code by restricting the area of application.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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