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Originally Posted by mmurfin87 View Post
Anyway, my thesis and argument is this: The state of Open Source would be much further advanced by getting rid of the GPL in all its current states, getting rid of the half-step that is the LGPL, and introduce a license that ALLOWS companies to use open code in a proprietary product. Give them a grace period (say 4 years) where they can get a competitive advantage out of that code before they have to release their source code.
Too much taking and not enough giving. If you first were to get rid of all software and hardware copyrights, licenses and patents, then I say let companies try to lock down their stuff any way they like. The market should do the rest.
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