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Old 11-09-2012, 11:10 AM   #1
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LXer: The GPL self-destruct mechanism that is killing Linux


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Festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted - thanks Eric!Analysis Does one of the biggest-ever revolutions in software, open source, contain the seeds of its own decay and destruction?…

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Old 11-09-2012, 01:37 PM   #2
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Sometimes, rival projects happen over political differences - as in the resistance to KDE's use of Qt and C++ which led to the creation of GNOME.
Wanting a more open license than what Trolltech was offering for Qt at the time is a "political difference"?

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