Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd May 2008 20:54 UTC
More often than not, the question arises on OSNews why certain projects or pieces of abandonware aren't released as open source software. Supposedly, this would speed up development, facilitate the growth of a community, all that jazz associated with open source development. Here are four projects I'd like to see released under a MIT license.
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2007-01-22
there is nothing 'socialist' about the gpl as it is a voluntary arrangement that free people choose. Many companies are making a lot of money with linux and other gpl apps and will continue to do so as long as they are useful. It is restrictive but closed source is even more restrictive and nobody says it is 'socialist' even though you can't do whatever you want with the software that you bought.
What would be socialist is if a government forced people to use GPL software whether or not the software is useful to the free market.