Fred Bloggs wrote...
I don't agree with him- he is an unrealistic idiot.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040226003735733
Eben Moglen is the lawyer who is the legal strength behind Gnu,
which is the foundation of Gnu/Linux,
http://www.gnu.org/ that
the business world is finding so useful now. Certainly, the
free-software freedom codified in the Gnu license has not been
idiotic for Linux, where thousands of [mostly paid] programmers
have been busily improving the operating system. Consider that
in the last year linux has increased 60%, at least by one measure,
"Red Hat Linux 7.1 represents over a 60% increase in size, effort,
and traditional development costs over Red Hat Linux 6.2 (which
was released one year earlier)."
http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/
Furthermore Linux continues to improve rapidly, becoming much
more attractive than Windows for large computers, simply on a
technical basis. Read the InfoWorld series, "Linux v2.6 kernel
looms large,"
http://www.infoworld.com/reports/05SRlinux26.html
On another front, large businesses such as IBM and Novell are
embracing the free-software model for their economic advantage.
The US DOD, and other government organizations having already
embraced linux and free-software long ago. Not so idiotic.