From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 07.01.2024 11:31, Paul Edwards wrote:   
      
     > I have a very different philosophy to that,   
     > which can be found here:   
     >   
     > https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpgoal.txt   
      
   This text is a sequence of arguments why GPL is much   
   superior to PD. Just a few examples:   
      
   || The Public Domain Project's philosophy is basically to put as much   
   || base material into the public domain so that commercial developers,   
   || or other PD developers, can build upon it, rather than having to   
   || reinvent the wheel.   
      
   That's also true if you replace "PD" by "GPL".   
      
      
   || It's like inventing the cure for cancer and keeping it a   
   || secret.  You may as well not have bothered.   
      
   Let's suppose, a group of scientists have developed such a   
   medicine, spending many man-years of development and then   
   releases it into PD. There are still some serious undesirable   
   effects, so it can't be used as it is. A company analyses the   
   research results and finds an improvement which removes the   
   undesirable effects so it now is the medicine, the whole world   
   is waiting for a long time. But the company isn't stupid, they   
   claim a patent for the modification, so nobody is allowed to   
   produce the medicine, even nearly all the work is released to PD.   
   And because the company isn't stupid, they sell it not for a   
   fair price for the little work they did, but they sell it for   
   the highest price they can get. So now we have the medicine, the   
   whole world is waiting for a long time, but only a few rich counties   
   are able to pay for it. That wouldn't have happened if a "GPL" instead   
   a "PD" would have been used.   
      
      
   I will not comment more of your text, but every sentence in   
   the text explains way GPL has to be preferred over PD.   
      
   Du you really think, Linux would still exist if it were   
   released in PD? Most contributions to Linux are now made   
   by companies. Why do you think Google uses Linux for   
   Android and doesn't develop its own, closed source, kernel?   
      
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