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> This happens rarely and when businesses get burnt, they're more apprehensive to do anything with opensource in the future. And why is that a bad thing? When

> This happens rarely and when businesses get burnt, they're more apprehensive to do anything with opensource in the future. And why is that a bad thing? When they "accidentally" copy a random image on Google Image Search and publish it in a flyer, they get sued by the maker for copyright infringement, and they become more apprehensive to copy random images in the future. This is a good thing. Businesses need to learn that there are laws and that software is subject to licenses that they should read. If they fuck up it's their own fault. Do you really want your user base to consist of people who don't read your license and don't try to honor your rights and only care about their own profit?

bxr 15y ago
>Businesses need to learn that there are laws and that software is subject to licenses that they should read I'm not saying burnt in a lawsuit against them for infringement, it could be as simple as abandoning technologies based on recommendation or clarification from their legal council.
Rusky 15y ago
I think the point is that the GPL has hurt open source because of the businesses' reactions. Of course it's vaguely good when businesses learn to be careful with software licensing, but if being careful entails not using open source, open source loses /because of the GPL/.