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

[Kagamin]

Georg Wrede Wrote:
 
> 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[...]

This is a lie. There is just no way for cigarette-chomping executives to not know, what are licenses and how they work.