iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[LuKreme]

On 2-Jul-2007, at 01:57, Chad Leigh wrote:
> But history I think shows that the software that is not GPL but  
> some other license has lead to more innovation and user choice than  
> has the GPL as it has inspired others to do new things, to build  
> upon the shoulders of those who came before, and give us new and  
> better SW that the GPL has not.  OS X is a good example.

gcc is the ultimate counter example.  Come on, a large portion of all  
the development done in OSS would not have even been possible without  
gcc.

I seem to recall being able to get a copy of AT&T Unix with a -- the  
number 6100 jumps to mind -- AT&T microcomputer that was being  
retired at a place I worked.  Unix came with the machine, but I would  
have to buy a c compiler myself.  This was... oh, 1988? 89?

If I remember right, the company would sell me the obsolete machine  
for $300.  AT&T wanted $3000 for a c compiler.

Might not have been $3000, but it WAS 4 digits.

Where would we be without gcc?

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