Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Feb 2008 16:38 UTC, submitted by Ilan Rabinovitch
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2007-07-24
[RE the use of MIT licence for Haiku instead of GPL]
BGA: We just base it on the principle that anyone that decides to do that [close Haiku's source] will have interest on us working on it so they will help us instead of only taking our stuff.
That's wishful thinking. If anyone ever closes the source as part of a plan to make money, they will then see the free version of Haiku as competition. They will do nothing to help the original project. This is a big part of why the GPL was created in the first place.
On a more positive note... I built Haiku on my R5 box a couple days ago and was very impressed with how far it has come in the past year. It looks beautiful, and it took deliberate effort to crash.