Re: Significance of the GP licence.

[RJack]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> In gnu.misc.discuss RJack <user@example.net> wrote:
>
> > Once the GPL is invalidated, promissory estoppel will allow some 
> > proprietary company to improve Linux and turn it into a real
> > operating system. Microsoft hates the thought that folks will
> > understand the GPL is unenforceable. That's the reason Microsoft
> > embraced the GPL -- it suppressed new competition.
>
> > Perhaps the Linux kernel will continue to be improved under a free 
> > (free as in freedom) license such as BSD or Apache.
>
> You still don't get it, RJ.  The GPL is the most popular free
> licence, and that popularity has a reason.
>
> Working on a BSD kernal is so much less popular than working on
> Linux. That has a reason, too.

Reason? So do birds. flowers and trees. So what is your point? You are
correct (for once). I don't get it. Statements usually have to make
sense. What's your rhetorical focus?

Sincerely,
RJack :)