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I didn't mean they care about recognition... I meant, no community forms around their product, because a huge portion of the developers that would like to use i

by NateDad 14y ago

I didn't mean they care about recognition... I meant, no community forms around their product, because a huge portion of the developers that would like to use it, can't. I never said "large" companies. Small companies can't use GPL in their software either, if they want to sell their software. For-profit companies aren't evil, in fact many of them do a lot of good things, including contributing back to open source projects with time paid for by their closed source products. I think the mindset of "all for-profit companies are evil" is a very 2003 way of thinking.

NateDad 14y ago
(note... I did say large.. my bad... still valid that small companies can't use GPL either)
skore 14y ago
There are a lot of for-profit companies that use GPL. I have one myself (albeit a very, very small one). As for community - I think community is often more corresponding to usefulness of code, not license of code. That's why there is often a huge "community" around very useful proprietary code. To me, it's about choosing which kind of community you want and I want the kind that the GPL enables and protects.