The false contradiction within open source

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I totally agree

Dear Dana, I totally agree with you. It is not only a matter of
ethics, but of economics - in general, the more reuse a
community can generate, the more valuable the software itself
become, even when monetization happens elsewere (like in
the Eclipse ecosystem; as a concrete example: http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=135 ). The strong ***-for-tat
asked by the GPL creates a more positive balance between
companies that want to proprietarize software for exclusive use
and the "community" that can participate in extending it.
While there are some good examples of non-copyleft projects
out there (like my favourite BSD project, PostgreSQL) the
majority of non-GPL projects tend to fall in the "infrastructure"
or library cathegory or have a smaller growth rate than GPL
ones.
Carlo Daffara
http://carlodaffara.conecta.it

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