Eric S. Raymond on GPL and BSD licenses. & Microsoft coming to Linux

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote in message 
news:gqiq8o$2b5m$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> Seems BSD should be Our Way:
>
> [...] has a downside, the downside is that people, especially lawyers, 
> especially corporate bosses look at the GPL and experience fear. Fear that 
> all of their corporate secrets, business knowledge, and special sauce will 
> suddenly be everted to the outside world by some inadvertent slip by some 
> internal code. I think that fear is now costing us more than the 
> threat[...]
>
> http://osnews.com/story/21192/ESR_GPL_No_Longer_Needed
>

Shoot, *I* look at the GPL and experience fear. Not fear of loosing secrets 
(I'm not usually real big on the idea of secret knowledge), but fear of that 
giant inscrutable wall of legalese (compare that to the BSD/MIT or zlib 
licenses) and fear of not being able to make a living writing code just 
because something might get "tainted" by the GPL. (The whole idea of "free 
as in freedom software" not also implying "free as in beer" (Side note: 
since when is beer free?) is complete bullocks.) (And yes, I just used the 
word "bullocks". I'm in a weird mood...)