ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"

Tony Godshall Tony Godshall <togo@of.net>
Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:03:44 -0700


>from O'Reilly...
> 
> 2. ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"
> During a recent Brazilian conference on free and open source software,
> hacker, writer, and speaker Eric Raymond stated that open source would see
> more rapid success if the GPL didn't make people nervous. Federico
> Biancuzzi recently interviewed ESR to gain more context for the statement
> and to explore these views more fully.
> 
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html

I think he's full of crap.  What about you?