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Forbes: Follow-Up To Linux’s Hit Men

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2003

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Of course the Free Software Foundation is entitled to enforce
its GNU General Public License (GPL), just as other organizations
are entitled to enforce their copyrights and licenses. My article
simply points out that the paradoxical effect of these ‘enforcement
actions’ (FSF’s term) may be to impede the adoption of Linux. By
demanding that licensees publish source code for their own
‘derivative work’ code (in addition to the Linux they’re using) the
FSF is, in effect, charging a royalty that approaches 100% of the
value of the licensee’s product…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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