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		bunderbunder on March 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Comparison of open-source licenses To say that entire industries are being held back by their fears about the GPL would be closer to what I was getting at. And not in a way that has anything to do with what Mr. Gurley was claiming. What I'm more worried about is the opportunity to fund innovation that is lost when companies choose to sink resources into reinventing wheels rather than picking open source projects off the shelf.

mkup on March 22, 2012 [–]

Well, reinventing wheels once more under BSD license seems to solve this problem (e.g. clang, FreeBSD, PostgreSQL...)

There was a first wave of free software, now comes the second one; "even more free software".

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