• Kagamin <spam here.lot> Mar 30 2009
• Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly gmail.com> Mar 30 2009

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Georg Wrede Wrote:
 
 Seems BSD should be Our Way:
 
 [...] has a downside, the downside is that people, especially lawyers, 
 especially corporate bosses look at the GPL and experience fear. Fear 
 that all of their corporate secrets, business knowledge, and special 
 sauce will suddenly be everted to the outside world by some inadvertent 
 slip by some internal code. I think that fear is now costing us more 
 than the threat[...]


This is a lie. There is just no way for cigarette-chomping executives to not
know, what are licenses and how they work.

Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly gmail.com> writes:

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:03:49 -0400, Kagamin wrote:

 Georg Wrede Wrote:
  
 Seems BSD should be Our Way:
 
 [...] has a downside, the downside is that people, especially lawyers, 
 especially corporate bosses look at the GPL and experience fear. Fear 
 that all of their corporate secrets, business knowledge, and special 
 sauce will suddenly be everted to the outside world by some inadvertent 
 slip by some internal code. I think that fear is now costing us more 
 than the threat[...]


 This is a lie. There is just no way for cigarette-chomping executives to not
know, what are licenses and how they work.


Sure they know.  They know too well that one wrong step, one ignorant
developer, and they may kiss good-bye to their precious intellectual
property.