Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Willem
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 09:37 am

gswork@mailcity.com wrote:
) The rest is a mixed bag from great to awful.   A huge variation also
) exists in CSS but what generally happens is that CSS which is very poor
) tends to fail commercially sooner or later while more successful
) software tends to evolve over many releases.   'failed' OSS doesn't
) dissapear, it hangs around on sourceforge and at least has the chance
) someone might come and rescue it (though in practice this doesn't seem
) to happen).

A horror scenario just popped into my head:

'failed' CSS is released as OSS, in the hopes of someone
picking it up and making it work, thus lowering the OSS average.

Yikes.


SaSW, Willem
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