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

[Sergey Gromov]

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:03:49 -0400, Kagamin wrote:

> 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.

Sure they know.  They know too well that one wrong step, one ignorant
developer, and they may kiss good-bye to their precious intellectual
property.