iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 3 juil. 07, at 23:20, Charlton Wilbur wrote:

> Suppose Joe produces a chunk of code to do something useful, and  
> releases it under the BSD license.  Megacorp Inc. takes that code,  
> spends a couple thousand dollars of programmer-time to put a pretty  
> UI on it, and releases it as an app for $100.
>
> If Joe's code is the valuable part in the eyes of the buyer, and  
> Megacorp Inc. hasn't added anything of value, then people can get  
> his code for free.  (Nothing Megacorp Inc. did made Joe's original  
> code any less free.)

Think Kerberos and the way it has been modified by Microsoft to ruin  
the efforts of the community to have a vendor neutral protocol.

Was it added value ? No, it was just distorting the original so that  
nobody would use it anymore. Was that innovation ? No, it was  
stealing, plain and simple.

Obviously the Kerberos developers with their MIT license had not  
considered the consequences of their move...

Jean-Christophe Helary