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Re: GNU licenses


From: Stefaan A Eeckels
Subject: Re: GNU licenses
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 02:31:51 +0200

On 4 Sep 2006 15:28:33 -0700
alexander.terekhov@gmail.com wrote:

> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> [...]
> > The GPL vision of software is more like how science is practiced
> 
> Rather funny practice in the context of the GPL you're talking about.
> 
> Most researches with the focus on industrial application (i.e.
> something that can be used to make products right now or pretty soon;
> and I mean most researchers in both private and "public" sector) file
> for patents like crazy. And research papers and reports are mostly
> all rights reserved.

Not that kind of applied crap - I mean fundamental research, like
mathematics. 

-- 
Stefaan A Eeckels
-- 
Microsoft treats IT managers the way Proctor & Gamble treats
nine-year-old prospective consumers: lots of noise, bright colors, and
jumping around. Other software vendors just wish they could be so
successful. -- Cameron Laird in comp.lang.tcl


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