I was watching the U.S. healthcare debate play out yesterday and it got me thinking.

I thought back to when our own industry was dominated by legal arguments, most of them half-digested and poorly-sourced. Including my own.

The GPL debates in open source were not a fun time and they dragged on for years.

So, I did some looking back and unless I’m missing something, the last real argument about the GPL was in July 2010, two years in the past. Continue reading →