Amusing article about busybox

[Rogelio Serrano]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In order to see that you need vision, and you need some basic
> understanding of how open source works. Sadly, a lot of people don't
> have those, and instead believe in FUD, and make decisions based on
> that.
>

too bad they just dont get to benefit from open source economics and
that may give their competitors who do a little advantage.

>> when you have intellectual property issues you will hate gpl. i have
>> worked with companies with no IP issues whatsoever and the gpl is
>> perfect.
>
> Agreed. Unfortunately most, if not all, big companies have IP. Sony for example.
>

too bad for sony. most of you will disagree but i dont think busybox
needs the big companies to survive. small companies can keep busybox
chugging along just fine.

sometimes i think the big companies are just using their size to
persuade developers to change the license.

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