[Asterisk-Users] Re: Advice on OS Choice

[Kevin Walsh]

Joe Greco [jgreco at ns.sol.net] wrote:
> > Distributing the source would allow peer review;  The hospital staff,
> > and other interested parties, could point out potential bugs, suggest
> > possible enhancements and even provide patches for consideration that
> > could turn out to be of benefit to healthcare in the future.
> >
> Uh huh.  Well, nice in theory, but not going to happen.  There's no reason
> to put the code under GPL, distribute it, and give HP access to technology
> several years more advanced than what they had.  That just doesn't happen
> in the commercial world.  Nobody's stupid enough to spend many man-years
> of development work and then *give* it to a competitor.  You might well be
> out of business a few years later, having saved your competitor a ton of
> money on development, allowing them to sell a similar product for 25%
> less. 
> 
> Oops.
> 
Oops is right.  You just revealed the real reason behind your hatred of
free and open source projects.  That sort of proprietary attitude is
on its way out now - slowly but surely.

The reason you don't like the GPL is because you can't use the code in
your closed source projects.  The reason you love the BSD license is
because you can appropriate all the code you need, and benefit from
multiple man years of other people's work, without having to give
anything back that might "give HP access to technology".

There's no point in continuing this "discussion" as you're clearly not
a member of the FOSS community.  It seems that you're just here in a
futile attempt to gather support for your out-dated development model.

*plonk*

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