> I was completely against the dual licensing in the beginning. But now, I'm
> leaning more towards understanding it and the importance of it, especially
> as it related to US Patent laws. We're going to find that everything is
> patented in the US. This is going to be the demise of open source in the
> US. Only with indeminifcation clauses are we going to be able to use
> software. We'll have to use software that already has already the patent
> license agreements in place. This is where the dual licensing and ABE comes
> in, in my opinion.
Your line of thinking reminds me of another doomsday scenario:
http://lwn.net/Articles/162686/
Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
What if.. what if the linux kernel developers tomorrow accept that
binary modules are OK and are essential for the progress of linux.
a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven
Strangely enough, this hasn't happened. Things have actually improved
with the recent decelartions of AMD/ATI .
If you are right, then the pressure will kill Asterisk. At least as a
market leader. Not leave just an ABE. The ABE has no existance in the
long run without the free version.
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