On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:15:20 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'Also read: Andrew S. Tanenbaum's (a professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit) open letter to Intel'
Which is here <http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/>, but I’m not sure I understand the point of it. Quote: I have run across this before, when companies have told me that they hate the GPL because they are not keen on spending a lot of time, energy, and money modifying some piece of code, only to be required to give it to their competitors for free. Gee, that’s too bad. You get to use a huge body of work from others for free, to which you just have to add your own little customizations, and you don’t want to share and share alike. Copyleft/sharealike licences have been accused of not being “business-friendly”. Maybe, but they certainly are competition-friendly. And only businesses that don’t like competition would object to this.