Is this just me or do we see a highly increased rate of (important and interesting) stuff being released (or announced to be released soon) under the terms of the GPL lately?
A few examples:
- VirtualBox— a VMware-like virtualisation solution
- Second Life— the client for now, but the server software might follow
- Fortress— Sun's Fortran replacement
- OpenSolaris— scheduled to be released under the GPLv3
- Java— this might have a huge impact...
- Sun UltraSPARC T1— a complete, modern CPU
This is a great trend and good news for all of us. A special thanks to Sun for releasing more and more stuff under free licenses!