Re: [ProgSoc] GPL

[jedd <jedd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Sat,  5 May 2001 16:21, whophd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au wrote:
 ] Unfortunately I agree with your gloomy outlook

 Gloomy outlook ?  Ahh, I get it.  Very punny.  ; )

 ] for the most part, though
 ] here we see a great example of how the GPL can fulfil its promise once it
 ] gains some largescale adoption from big companies like IBM.  If a big
 ] company likes a piece of GPL enough, interesting things start to happen.

 I think the other thing we can expect to see is the cigarette-company
 style revolutionaries popping out of the woodwork to expose their
 wayward masters.  I think in no small part due to the parallel process
 that we're seeing now, as graduates who've learned to love GPL'd
 products (like Linux), come into the marketplace and infect organisations
 in all kinds of positive ways -- we're going to see businesses infected
 with an Open Is Good mentality.  It may take a little longer, since it takes
 longer to change the mentality of an organisation than it does to change
 the way it operates.

 There's 30,000+ MS employees, for example.  They can't all hope
 to die loving big brother.

 Jedd.

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