Re: [ox-en] GPL Restrictive (and all the rest of those threads that this grew out of)
- From: Russell McOrmond <russell flora.ca>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:42:48 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Martin Hardie wrote:
But as a dispute between capitalists how can people imagine the
SCO/Msoft argument that the GPL is anti competitive - this is one thing
I have been trying to flush out here. Looking at it in this way may be
helpful.
To get part of your answer, see what is happening in the software patent
part of this debate:
http://www.ffii.org.uk/ftc/ftc.html
"The FTC looked especially closely at the different effects of patents
on the competitive environment in four key high-tech industries:
pharmaceuticals, biotech, computer hardware/semiconductors, and
computer software/internet. In its quietly-stated, deeply-researched
governmental way, its conclusions are fascinating and devastating:
software patents do virtually nothing positive to promote innovation,
but create a competition nightmare."
This is the Federal Trade Commission of the United States. Given how
things are finally being looked at on patents, it is likely that legacy
"software manufacturing" policy favoratism is generally on its way out.
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