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GNU GPL Kills
posted by mpawlo on Monday September 16, @03:17PM
from the oh-please dept.
Open Source Lawmeme's Ernest Miller has looked closely at the arguments made by David Henderson against the GNU GPL. In his analysis, Henderson compares GNU GPL to pharmaceuticals and concludes:



'Imagine where we'd be if pharmaceutical companies had not been allowed to use government research, and the development of drugs based on that research had been left to non-profits or government agencies. Thousands of people would be dead who are now alive, courtesy of some of today's "miracle" drugs.'

Ernest Miller is way too soft (maybe evilness is not taught at Yale) on Henderson when he writes, brilliantly,:

'pharmaceuticals are different from the software industry because the FDA (thank god) requires extensive and expensive drug testing before products can be sold. The same cannot be said for software, so the economics are just a bit different.'

I think it no more than fair to paraphrase Nicklas Lundblad: David Henderson's article is so bad, was it a horse we would be forced to shoot it.

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    Author's Position I Summed Up Quite Nicely... (Score:1)
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    ...in the final sentence. He is a consultant to Microsoft. GIGOwiz

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