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Re: Attorney fees
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Attorney fees |
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Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:15:21 +0200 |
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John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
> I wrote:
>> The competitors you created in step one can create competing GPL
>> versions with the same features.
>
> David Kastrup writes:
>> That's a nice theory. In practice, you can't hope to keep pace with the
>> original authors in almost any case unless development died altogether or
>> they left.
>
> We are talking about the main line going closed-source. That provides
> both motive and opportunity. Consider X.
What about X should I consider? X was a consortium product. The most
active developers clamped down on the distribution conditions, and other
previously active developers reengaged themselves on a different
version.
Far cry from a single-vendor situation. Or what are you talking about?
>> Many projects don't survive the original authors leaving (or even
>> just aging) even without forking or competition.
>
> If no one cares then it doesn't matter, does it?
Last time I looked, "care" and "can" were two different words.
> If Open Office went closed-source many people would care, and many of
> them would be in a position to do something about it. Again, consider
> X.
OpenOffice is by and large not a consortium product, but Starsoft->Sun.
Quite few developers without that affiliation. In contrast, X is not
really bound to any particular shop.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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