Mike Miller wrote: > Open source has been doing great things for us. Maybe you haven't been > around long enough to appreciate this. It's an entirely different > software world now, largely because of the FOSS movement. I think the > future of FOSS looks very bright. > I've been writing code since the late '60's so I've seen most stuff go by three or four times already :-) People had been donating software to the 'cause' for quite some time before RMS published his Dr. Dobbs article in '85. And trust me, I've been in enough development meetings to know that wrapping code in a layer of political dogma and legal ambiguity doesn't make it any easier to sell to management. > I think it is better that code is not used at all than that it is used > within a proprietary program that competes with a decent FOSS option. > If it can't make it as FOSS, it isn't all that great and I am happy to > see it die. > I guess we'll have to disagree and each license our code as we see fit. --rick