Why the GPL is garbage…
April 17, 2011 4 Comments
#1 reason, and the only reason I need, you can’t make a lot of money by putting all your software under the GPL. You can’t really sell your software if it’s under GPL, because anyone can set up a torrent for everyone to download, and it’s perfectly legal. Sure you could sell support like Red Hat does, but you won’t make that much when people can just go use a forum and get free support. You could also sell t-shirts of your logo like Firefox does, but that still doesn’t make you that much money. Let’s look at some big-name companies: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle. They don’t have all their software under the GPL, but they have few, but there big money makers are proprietary software.
GNU Sucks 
ura fagot
Spoken like someone with a reading age of 6. You don’t need money kid, you should be concentrating on your crayons.
“Spoken like someone with a reading age of 6. You don’t need money kid, you should be concentrating on your crayons”.
Agreed!
You’re free to not use the GPL. But what you can’t do is use someone else’s code under GPL and then not also use GPL. That’s the agreement. Feel free to write your software from scratch without GPL and sell it everywhere. In fact, neither Linux or the development tools require you to use GPL as long as you’re not including their code.