Re: Attorney fees

[John Hasler]

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.

> 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?  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.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA