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Originally Posted by Baltar  His philosophy works great if you're living in Gene Roddenberry's world of Star Trek, but reality is quite different. |
I made a similar comment on another forum - GPL can only be universally successful in software when it could be universally successful in all aspects of life. The big requirement would be replicator technology, along with unlimited energy, so real objects could be copied like software is.
That article by ESR details many of the points raised here - I highly recomend it.
As for Google - take a look
over here.