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The GPL Impedes Linux More Than It Helps?
Created 06.10.2005 - 22:55

Anonymous Coward writes "Linux ought to be even more successful than it is. On ZDNet, Paul Murphy ponders the reasons why. For one thing: The GPL impedes Linux more than it helps. Licensing issues, coupled with patent and copyright FUD, have caused developers and VCs to think twice before committing to Linux. Murphy also suspects that desktop Linux is stuck on stupid." From the post: "Basically, legal issues, or the threat of legal issues, caused some key applications developers to back off Linux while the general negativism of Linux marketing caused many of the individuals whose innovations should have been driving Linux adoption to hang fire until MacOS X and Solaris for x86 under the CDDL came along."

Originally by Zonk at Slashdot: Your Rights Online, 9:55 PM

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Cite as: Jaani Riordan, ‘The GPL Impedes Linux More Than It Helps?’ (2005) Jaani.net Internet Law and Technology <http://www.jaani.net/view/2005/10/06/the_gpl_impedes_linux_more_than_it_helps>.
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