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What Else Did Evans Survey Say?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 28, 2007

“Evans Data surveyed 380 open source developers, and the
headline was that two-thirds will avoid GPLv3 over the next year,
and 43% now say they’ll never use it.

“It’s the Windows Vista of open source software licenses! Well,
maybe. Software licenses have become more like software itself. You
never know what bugs there are right out of the box. And the GPLv2
license works well, so why upgrade…?”

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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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