Python is better than free (was Re: GNU wars again)

[Samuel Schulenburg]

Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message news:<mailman.1002031982.1495.python-list at python.org>...
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:59:34AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> > If GNU code is FREE, then I'll have to say that Python (and code under 
> > BSD-style licenses) is BETTER THAN FREE. Frankly, I'm very grateful to 
> > Guido for allowing Python to be used freely in commercial software.
> 
>    I see your point. You use other's people work without paying them. GNU
> GPL, at least, force you to pay (by publishing your code). You don't want
> to pay, and Python license makes you happy :(
> 
> Oleg.
> ---- 
>      Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
>            Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

Sometimes you have code that you want to release with a commercial
product, that contains propriatary information about the internals in
your product. A GPL license would keep you from releasing this code
using Python.

If you want to use a commerical script language, it's hard to find one
that allows you to use it commerically, without adding  restrictive
clauses on its use.

I have lost track of the number of script language's that I have been
exposed to while working for various companies in the disk drive
industries. All these script languagues were poorly developed, but
they were developed to get around the limitations provided by the
commerically available languages. Python was the first language I
found that meet the reqirements that I needed. ( Extendable, and
Embeddable)

Sam Schulenburg