Re: Is the GPL all encompassing?

[amicus_curious]

"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message 
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> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
>
> > "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1DsCk.1953$as6.96@fe109.usenetserver.com...
> > > I believe Microsoft is quite nonplussed that their penetration
> > > into server markets has been blunted by free OS alternatives.
> >
> > That seems to be a frail reed indeed.  Microsoft has gone from zero
> > server market share (at the advent of NT) to about 40% in terms of the
> > dollar value of new servers sold annually using Windows server OS and
> > about 50% in numerical units shipped.  That is a pretty impressive
> > capture rate and it all occurred in the same timeframe that Linux was
> > evolving.  Linux has made gains, to be sure, but almost all at the
> > expense of traditional Unix system sales.
>
> So what does that tell you about the superiority of the traditional
> proprietary Unix systems?
I think that it forces the Unix vendors to come up with a value proposition 
that makes sense to their customers.  Since the organizational and 
educational barriers to Linux adoption are low in Unix environments, Unix 
erodes more readily on a price issue there.