Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

[Rjack]

David Kastrup wrote:

> > He made the rather audacious and totally unsupported statement
> > that the "GPL software market is worth billions by now" and he
> > ducks and runs from the challenge that his notion is simply
> > false.
>
> Huh?  There was no challenge.  If there had been, it would have
> been easy to counter.  RedHat's market capitalization is
> 5.29billion at the moment, their main product is RedHat Linux and
> an estimated 80% (including the kernel) of any Linux distribution
> is under the GPL.
The statement concerned the "GPL software" market (i.e. proprietary
vs. non-proprietary) software. It is a category mistake to conflate
"software" market with "software services" market.


Sincerely,
Rjack