The crux of the GPL problem

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Capitalism in practice?

I don't know, but doesn't the fact that we have multiple parks is capitalism in pratice? Unlike Communist bloc where there is only one pencil manufacturer, we have multiple pencil manufacturers. Isn't the fact that having multiple pencil manufacturer is a waste of space and resources and everyone lose out on economic of scales?

Using the park analogy, one can argue that we have multiple parks, all with different admission requirements. For example, one park for BSD, another for GPL, one park for Novell's proprietary license, another for Microsoft etc etc etc. So if your park is BSD, members from virtually every other park can visit you. Some park, say GPL park, may have high entrance requirement.

All parks have basically the same basic recreational equipments. The Eclipse park, GPL park and Microsoft park are probably the biggest and most popular parks. So why don't we kill all parks on the ground of wastefulness, and force everyone to give up proprietary software, free software and just create one big park call the "Public Domain" Park?

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