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You're introducing a logical non-sequitur. That there is a niche isn't the issue, it's what the niche is. Enterprise services. The fact that they're also not actually selling GPL s…

I think you and I are wasting time. You care about making things easier for software users. Software users don't make more software; software authors do. Actually, I think "users" …

I'm not sure what your point is, or how it counters the author's original point, which is that what's good for the goose is very much not good for the gander.

Why not talk about SourceFire, Sleepycat, Splunk, Hyperic, Zimbra, and Astaro All selling services and products around a very specific type of software, selling to a very specific …

I agree that the GPL is primarily useful as a vehicle for making money off software that is also released as open source. Since open source commercial software is strictly better t…

You're arguing that users don't believe the current situation is a fair trade, and would rather enter into a GPL quodque pro quo agreement if they were not restricted by the purcha…

As I said below, I'm surprised by the emotional arguments engendered in your word choices -- "fairness", "benevolence", etc. This is simply business, not ideology. In terms of ideo…

I agree -- and I think Monty has no business taking umbrage with the bed he's made -- but it's worth exploring why this is the case.

I'm surprised at the appeals to emotion engendered in your word choices -- "fairness" and "benevolence". I don't think either applies. The GPL is primarily useful as a means to mai…

The only freedom GPL denies a developer is to close up software that was once free. You can't "close up" software that was free. The software remains free. The only freedom the all…

Yes, the BSD license sure is better for software users. It's also better for software contributors who want to leverage the code in their own products, and use the resulting revenu…

I'm not sure how I understand how a commercial license is "strictly more restrictive" than the AGPL, which requires that you also release your code under the AGPL. Whether or not i…

I'm firmly disagree with Monty's duplicity, but I'll try to shed some light on it. The "big deal" is that only two things provide a revenue stream around MySQL sufficient to suppor…

In contrast, as a company looking to use and contribute to open-source software, BSD licensed code is an easier sell because you aren't locked to purchasing a commercial non-OSS li…

Merging. Subversion 1.5, released in June of 2008, supports merge tracking. If you're using the limitations of your VCS to manage team communication then you have bigger problems. …

My reading was that he was presenting the GPL as an inherently flawed dream unable to survive in the reality of the economic marketplace. In succeeding in market adoption, the prol…

The GPL was invented to leverage network effects to win in the market place, ensuring an exceptionally high entry barrier to non-GPL market entrants (a natural monopoly) should the…

Tarsnap does block-based differentials, in addition to its fancy crypto footwork. You can't set that up with bash, truecrypt, and S3.

You should consider partnering with (or contracting out) to someone already well familiar with OS X and interested in writing a GUI. Tarsnap has one of the technically best back-en…

In subversion, yes, you don't go through the hassle of creating a branch for all these reasons. svn cp ^/trunk ^/branches/tentonova-bugfix-x svn co ^/branches/tentonova ~/branch I …

This still feels like the sort of statement that comes from having not worked with a (D)VCS that does branching well. I've worked with both git and hg. There is no "inherent organi…

... if you forget to specify a version number for one of the dependencies, doesn't maven just default to the latest version at build time, thus becoming nondeterministic? No. ... i…