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When you say "chilling effect" are you suggesting that entire industries are being held back by the existence of the GPL? This seems similar to calling Android
by __alexs 15y ago
When you say "chilling effect" are you suggesting that entire industries are being held back by the existence of the GPL?
This seems similar to calling Android "the greatest legal destruction of wealth in history." (http://gizmodo.com/5785983/android-may-be-the-greatest-legal-destruction-of-wealth-in-history http://gizmodo.com/5785983/android-may-be-the-greatest-legal...)
- bunderbunder 15y agoTo say that entire industries are being held back by their fears about the GPL would be closer to what I was getting at. And not in a way that has anything to do with what Mr. Gurley was claiming. What I'm more worried about is the opportunity to fund innovation that is lost when companies choose to sink resources into reinventing wheels rather than picking open source projects off the shelf.
- mkup 15y agoWell, reinventing wheels once more under BSD license seems to solve this problem (e.g. clang, FreeBSD, PostgreSQL...) There was a first wave of free software, now comes the second one; "even more free software".