[Golden Eagle]

Ownership remains with the author.

Ownership of GPL code isn't worth a hill of beans. IBM, Novell and others will be profiting off that code, reproducing it, pretty much anything they want to it whether the GPL survives or not.

And those poor authors won't get much in return from the billions in dollars made off their code either. All their software engineering contributions become = the value of running a non-comercial version of the O/S for life.

LOL, what a pitiful return on investment!

[adam_az]

Interesting, but the developers are aware of that. Of course, they do receive a very valuable intangible, which is reputation and increased career prospects. Guess what, most kernel developers are also professional programmers. (or else college students.)

You didn't rebut my reply, btw, you were totally OT