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In it he says the GPL is "slowly destroying the market for independent software applications" and that the FSF is out "to destroy the intellectual property value in computer software," drawing the agency's attention to such FSF-produced collateral as the provocatively titled "dotCommunist Manifesto."
Wallace told the regulator that the obvious target of the open source business model is Microsoft and Windows.
"Unfortunately," he says, "it is not Microsoft who suffers. The result of this predatory pricing at 'no charge' for intellectual property under the GPL license is causing the foreclosure of any remaining intellectual property market for the individual software developer and small business entrepreneur dealing in POSIX operating systems and various applications for the desktop and enterprise markets. The license is a per se violation of the antitrust laws."
Taking his argument a step further, he says, "Removing the profit incentive in intellectual software property creation is even suppressing the enrollment of new students training for careers in the computer sciences here in the United States."
(This article appeared originally at www.clientservernews.com.)
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Alex 10/04/05 03:12:05 PM EDT | |||
Since when did the fact that some crackpot wrote a letter to somebody become news? Millions of people write letters and emails every day! This is Daniel Wallace, after all -- not the CEO of General Motors (and even then, it would hardly be newsworthy). |
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EOS News Desk 09/23/05 12:39:15 PM EDT | |||
The GPL is 'slowly destroying the market for independent software applications' and the FSF is out 'to destroy the intellectual property value in computer software,' according to a letter sent by Daniel Wallace to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). |
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