<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Of course. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>However, it's interesting to see one of the largest GPL vendor</span></div><div><span>trying to find ways to get a competitive edge over others. GPL</span></div><div><span>makes that hard.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>A friend told me he asked 3 lawyers about a summary of GPL v3:</span></div><div><span>All of them came to different conclusions :-)</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>There's no point for a business to waste time & money with GPL, lawyers and</span></div><div><span>associated activities. There are alternatives which offer more freedom.<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new
roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ajay R Ramjatan <ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk>; LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss@lugm.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 21:54<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [lugm.org] GPL is a thorn for business<br></font><br>What they do is provide full patched kernel sources instead of<br>individual diffs. Nothing illegal here.<br><br>On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 21:42, Loganaden Velvindron <<a ymailto="mailto:gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk">gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> Redhat admits that it ``obfuscates'' patches to prevent<br>> Oracle/CentOS/Novell from offering direct support.<br>> <a
href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5oOugqiyEjkJ:www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/+open+source+undercut&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr&client=firefox-a" target="_blank">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5oOugqiyEjkJ:www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/+open+source+undercut&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr&client=firefox-a</a><br>> Once again, this shows the problem of the GPL: forcing<br>> people to redistribute their changes is a bad idea.<br>> By contrast, this problem is absent for companies like Juniper,<br>> who ship BSD-based derived OS. If they want, they can choose<br>> which patches they'd like to merge. This gives businesses a better<br>> control over their derivative work, which the GPL
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