ref: Microsoft barriers to Linux adoption on the desktop

[Joel Rees]

This is the misconception:

> If the "Linux Community" wants to promote Linux, and show it is better
> than Windows

This argument has proceeded apace like it has many times before.

I'll offer this allegory (which I'm sure is not relevant with me) and 
quit abusing the list by taking the bait --

If money and assurances are grease, old-fashioned EULAs are like a 
while on an axle with no bearings.

GPL is like bearings on the axle, requires much less grease, but you do 
have to use the stupid bearing to get the benefit. It requires 
abandoning the old business model, which has gummed up economies from 
time immemorial. (But it does not require turning to communism, no. 
Communism is not the only alternative to making money your immutable 
highest priority.)

BSD/MIT style licenses are like maglev, it takes a lot of energy, but 
the benefits make sense in some cases, mostly involving very large 
businesses. Public domain is like being in free-fall.

And it is the last two points that indicate why Linux gets more support 
from the people who make it work, and that is what the hardware vendors 
who are scared of Linux do not understand.

Now, you who are making yourself a trolling troll by arguing against 
history (and repeating an ancient flamewar), if you don't like the 
license, quit trying to kill the goose that laid the golden egg and go 
use a license you like.