From: Jonas Hartmann <Mail@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T13:05:58+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI IDE for Ruby

Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Jonas Hartmann:
> 
> 
>>graham wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>Another vote for Arachno Ruby (http://www.rubyide.com)
> 
> 
>>>Ditto - as you say - work in progress, but still very usable as is. 
> 
> 
>>i prefer open source, best GPL style, software.
>>makes me more independent. 
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity - what's in GPL that benefits you *as
> a user* in contrast to other Open Source licenses (say, BSD)?

It is more likely that I won't get into a situtation where code goes closed, means it is used in closed source products or is used to build close source products.

Take, for example NeoOffice (OO Fork for OS X), if this was released under a more liberal and less free liscense soon there would be commercial closed source solutions that offer "benefits" of this or that kind.

and some time later i see the original open source project die. (less users, less need, less money support)

i perfer bsd when it is about very basic things that can be reimplemented/created fast.

> Cheers,
> -- Shot, who's definitely in the GPL camp as a developer,
>    but doesn't see much difference for the users...