Re:Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
by Locke1689 on Sunday October 17, 2010 @02:39PM
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Personally, I'm a big fan of the BSD-style and MIT licenses. I don't care how or why anyone uses my code, I just want a little credit for writing it.
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Re:Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
by ssp on Sunday October 17, 2010 @05:21PM
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How carefully have you thought about that?
Are you fine with someone integrating your code into a GPL project that competes with you, and potentially out-competes your project?
Re:Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
by steveklabnik on Sunday October 17, 2010 @05:41PM
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I have, and I am. If I write some code, and Microsoft takes it and improves Windows, I've just helped a zillion people, regardless of how much I dislike Microsoft, and regardless of the fact that I won't see a dime or any credit.
I do think the opposing position has merit, I just don't take the same position personally.
Re:Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
by ssp on Monday October 18, 2010 @12:13AM
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The reason I mentioned a GPL project specifically is that that would be competing directly with the BSD project for the hearts and minds of the open source community. For some people I think that would be harder to swallow than say Microsoft using the code in Windows.