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by robin_bb 5569 days ago
I consider this to be a failure of a GPL-licensed open source software project. Samba is not being used by Solaris, nor by Mac OS X.
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wmf 5569 days ago
Developers who use the GPL don't want as many users as possible; they want freedom and users can take it or leave it.
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JoeAltmaier 5569 days ago
...and they have mostly left it in this case. Fine; but lets not pretend open-source GPL projects are significant to the world at large; they are backroom projects with no future.
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jscott1290 5566 days ago
are you kidding me? gcc?
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JoeAltmaier 5565 days ago
I use gcc. Its a constant struggle compared to commercial, supported compilers.
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tjarratt 5569 days ago
Upvoted, as I agree with you philosophically, that the GPL is not exactly a corporate developer's best friend.

However, neither Solaris nor Apple are typical corporations in terms of using licensed 3rd party code; given the terms the GPL poses, wouldn't you expect to see more smaller companies, or companies that operate primarily on the web to adopt GPL'd projects?

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