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["Paula Paul" <Paula AT PaulSoftware.com>]

> 
> My personal opinion on the viability of the GPL and other 
> free software 
> licensing schemes is that they invariably favor the business 
> models of large 
> corporations over startups.  For example, at IBM, they make a 
> lot of money 
> from services and hardware, and the less they have to spend 
> on software 
> development and maintenance the higher their profit margins. 
> Why would they 
> want to keep 20,000 employees around to develop AIX when it takes a 
> fraction of that amount to maintain Linux, and they can sell 
> just as much 
> hardware and services on Linux as AIX?
> 

Amen!  I don't really have any problems with the GPL - if I don't want
to follow it, I don't include GPL'd software in my products.  It just
makes me queasy to see "FreeDevelopers.Net"
(http://FreeDevelopers.net/company/CommCo/ ) paint itself as some kind
of 'good guy' defender of software developers (against the evil
Microsoft), when it will ultimately undermine their ability to make a
living as an independent software author.  There has to be a better way.

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