> You have no idea how large companies are run, and I don't have the time to educate you.
How about educating the rest of us, at least a bit? I will freely admit that I have no idea how any company, large or small, could possibly find it difficult to comply with GPL licenses, other than in the particular case of using a low-bid supplier and not checking the result. More generally, I don't understand how any company can think it wise to use a pile of FOSS-licensed software without educating people on how to handle FOSS code properly, just as large companies have people specifically responsible for licensing the proprietary software they use. It still mystifies me how companies continue to screw this up when it takes to little to get it right.
And quite frankly, I'd rather see slower adoption of Linux and more GPL compliance than rapid adoption of Linux and widespread GPL violations. While some companies might shy away from using Linux because they've figured out that they might actually have to comply with the licenses, I keep seeing more and more companies actually shipping Linux and getting the details right. I see little GPL notices and offers of source code in numerous products that I use, which never used to appear before, and I can't help but credit some of the organizations enforcing the GPL for that.
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Re: I'm out....
Date: 2012-02-01 01:14 am (UTC)How about educating the rest of us, at least a bit? I will freely admit that I have no idea how any company, large or small, could possibly find it difficult to comply with GPL licenses, other than in the particular case of using a low-bid supplier and not checking the result. More generally, I don't understand how any company can think it wise to use a pile of FOSS-licensed software without educating people on how to handle FOSS code properly, just as large companies have people specifically responsible for licensing the proprietary software they use. It still mystifies me how companies continue to screw this up when it takes to little to get it right.
And quite frankly, I'd rather see slower adoption of Linux and more GPL compliance than rapid adoption of Linux and widespread GPL violations. While some companies might shy away from using Linux because they've figured out that they might actually have to comply with the licenses, I keep seeing more and more companies actually shipping Linux and getting the details right. I see little GPL notices and offers of source code in numerous products that I use, which never used to appear before, and I can't help but credit some of the organizations enforcing the GPL for that.