Except, is that chart of how many projects use each license, or how much much use software with those licenses sees? Those could be very different. But ups for commenting on the substance rather than the style.

Both Blackduck and Gartner Group are pushing a doomsday scenario of GPLv3 and the AGPL seeing surging use, respectively.

The patent / IP language in the GPLv3 still scares a lot of larger companies, my employer included. It's in Blackduck's commercial interest to present information in a way that exaggerates the prominence of that family of licenses. Thus, the chart is of the number of projects released under that license, and does not take into account the maturity or market penetration of a project. For instance, a new entry on Sourceforge with nothing but a README in its repo would be included in Blackduck's count.

That's not to say Blackduck itself is all bad, mind you. I've sat through a few Continuing Legal Education webinars that they've hosted, and they've all been quite objective and accurate. In each case, they brought in fairly prominent figures from the Open Source law space (Karen Copenhaver, Mark Radcliffe, etc) for the sessions.

I very nearly hit that point taking Differential Equations my last semester, but thanks to persistence and a very helpful prof, I got over it. Not sure where I'd have ended up if I kept going, but I've always regretted not taking more abstract/"modern" algebra

I don't think the guys will flame you; sounds kinda girly to complain about this.

_sounds kinda girly to complain about this._

yes, that's a good point, because anything females do is bad.

yeah it's sexist. beats me why it actually got 2 upvotes, and didn't go negative. people here suck i guess.

i only posted it because someone posted ageism and i wanted to see what would get more downvotes (i thought sexism would, lol). major fail...

BTW I'm not sure that sarcasm is a good way to deal with sexism. Why be semi-subtle? Can't you confront it head on?

kirubakaran, why did you delete your comment? Sibling of the parent of this comment.

Hi, could we try debating the content rather than the title?

The sentence in question, "Recorded music is nothing but marketing material to drive awareness of an artist," as spoken by Arrington, is pretty sad. The author has a good point. As a sometime musician, it makes me very sad.

But this sort of devaluation attitude toward music is well known about already. Ironically, it is usually blamed on those dang kids and their crazy Internet making it easy to download lots of recorded music without paying anything for it.

Ironically though, I think it's more the fault of the music business, who for decades have treated music as nothing but marketing material to drive sales of flat round pieces of plastic.