Tag: gpl
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GPL as an anti-competitive tool
For some the GPL is a religion for others it is a business model. I have long been concerned that open source creates non-competive monopolies. In the 1990’s there were many webservers but in after a couple of years only Apache and Microsoft IIS remained. When I posed this to O’ Reilly (of the books)…
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GPL: Living with cancer
The GPL software licence has been described as, “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” The GPL is deeply antithetical to idea the of software as private property (it is called a FREE Software Licence) and denies the opportunity for developers to create capital by requiring them to…
Dr James Bayley 