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It's less confusing/misleading than free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech vs free-as-in-dammit-you-cant-do-that-tivo.
> Apple is working on clang because it doesn't want to deal with the GPL (unless you own Apple stock, you're the one losing because of this decision)
Have you seen the sh##t g++ provides for error messages? clang++ is a massive improvement.
> There is very little incentive for companies to invest in BSD code, and no disincentive for them to steal it.
Which is of course why http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ only includes people working out of their mothers' basements, why http://www.sqlite.org/index.html doesn't show any corporate sponsors, and why BSD died years ago...
> If Linux wasn't GPLed, it wouldn't be where it is today.
Yeah, I think the original license had something about "no commercial use" in it.
> think that somehow Apple releasing some of their code under the BSD justifies restricting their end-users to their locked-in App Store
I don't see how there's any relation between those?
> shows that you don't understand that Apple doesn't care about you and your open source; they'll take whatever is convenient
"Caring" is an emotion, which organizations don't seem to have.
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It's less confusing/misleading than free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech vs free-as-in-dammit-you-cant-do-that-tivo.
> Apple is working on clang because it doesn't want to deal with the GPL (unless you own Apple stock, you're the one losing because of this decision)
Have you seen the sh##t g++ provides for error messages? clang++ is a massive improvement.
> There is very little incentive for companies to invest in BSD code, and no disincentive for them to steal it.
Which is of course why http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ only includes people working out of their mothers' basements, why http://www.sqlite.org/index.html doesn't show any corporate sponsors, and why BSD died years ago...
> If Linux wasn't GPLed, it wouldn't be where it is today.
Yeah, I think the original license had something about "no commercial use" in it.
> think that somehow Apple releasing some of their code under the BSD justifies restricting their end-users to their locked-in App Store
I don't see how there's any relation between those?
> shows that you don't understand that Apple doesn't care about you and your open source; they'll take whatever is convenient
"Caring" is an emotion, which organizations don't seem to have.