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One problem with releasing your code as open source is it can get used in ways that you don't approve of, eg weapon systems by the military or crapware by the carriers.
This is why the GPL is better than Apache. The military would have to release their code.
One problem with releasing your code as open source is it can get used in ways that you don't approve of, eg weapon systems by the military or crapware by the carriers.
I still have a problem with using a VM on a phone and having GC on a phone. (I also have a problem with Objective C's function call overhead.)
This isn't hard realtime systems. Nobody is going to die because it takes a few seconds extra for them to download updates (the human brain takes a lot longer to process it anyway). And JIT compiled java can be faster than native code, even in situations where you would not expect it (such as signal handling code).
But your points are true anyway.
One problem with releasing your code as open source is it can get used in ways that you don't approve of, eg weapon systems by the military or crapware by the carriers.
They also use Windows...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if they shared it with a contractor?
Then they would have to share it with the contractor under the terms of the GPL. The contractor could then release it further. More likely though, the contractor would be brought in to work on the project and the military would argue that it wasn't distributing the code.
Unless the contract said that they couldn't. And even if a specific contract didn't stop a given contractor from redistributing some GPL technology, how many contractors are going to risk being banned from future contracts because they redistributed?
One problem with releasing your code as open source is it can get used in ways that you don't approve of, eg weapon systems by the military or crapware by the carriers.
One other thing people forget to consider when creating intellectual property of closed source or open source is that copyright does not last forever. Every piece of intellectual property you create will eventually belong to the public domain, albeit after 75-100+ years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_copyright#United_Stat...
One problem with releasing your code as open source is it can get used in ways that you don't approve of, eg weapon systems by the military or crapware by the carriers.
This is why the GPL is better than Apache. The military would have to release their code.