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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: keeping CC-SA free
  • Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:16:54 -0700

Greg London wrote:
Linux developed and survived over 20 years

12 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#History

alongside Microsoft because Copyleft gave
the code to everyone and it prohibited the
likes of Microsoft from taking it private,
extending it, and competing against the
original Linux.

Apache has been far more successful <http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html> versus Microsoft. Apache is not copylefted.

I think copyleft is cool, but it isn't the only licensing possibility for open stuff to compete against proprietary stuff.

FYI, <https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2004-March/000522.html>.

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Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/people#21




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