Jan Wildeboer jan.wildeboer@gmx.de schrieb/wrote:
Interesting - Free software can violate antitrust laws? Can you construct a theoretical example? Just curious :-)
Consider this: Apache changes the licence to GPL. As Apache has a large market share, 3rd party vendors for WWW server solutions would have to make their products compatible with Apache.
However, taken the GPL literally, they could not, for example, write a plugin like mod_fancy_shopping_solution and release that under a proprietary licence.
So proprietary software vendors could not access that market, giving an competive advantage to Open Source software vendors.
Claus