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Originally Posted by gberardi  Lots of companies enjoy vendor lock-in, and the SCO lawsuit involving IBM, Novell, and a few high-profile software developers shows that Microsoft (although perhaps they were just behind the scenes) isn't the only one who wanted the courts to say that the GPL is invalid. |
SCO more or less represents Microsoft's interests. They've gotten funding from Microsoft to help them pay for their lawsuits. SCO sued both IBM and Novell which are supporters of open source. Novell even owns SuSE Linux.
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Originally Posted by gberardi In the end, if you don't want to use it, no one is forcing you to do so. GNU ninjas aren't going to hack into your computer and change the license on all of your code. You won't wake up in the middle of the night, find that your software license has been changed to the GPL, and scream, "NOOOOOOO!!!!! STALLMAN!!!!!" |
The reason I said what I said is that the FSF (and their hardcore supporters) want
all software to be released under the GPL. I have no problem with people using GPL if they want to. My problem is that they want
everyone to use it. If they didn't push it this way I wouldn't even be arguing here.