FOSS licenses...

Contrary to what many people would like to have people believe, FOSS licenses don't hinder software development and innovation.

As the matter of fact, software under FOSS licenses can spur innovation not only in software. It can help to bring innovations faster to all areas of human knowledge by allowing to change and study the software used to better suit what is used.

Not only that, collaboration would be easier. It would allow people to improve or change the software to suit their needs, and to be free to distribute the modified software to other people. This would benefit everybody, since both the people who released the software and users can have access to the modified code to make use of it.

People on the same field could have to the latest software either at a fraction of today's cost, or for free. This means that relevant information, and software, could be more evenly distributed allowing all interested parties can work on a level field. Developments made this way would be a lot more easier to make, and the final user would have access to them faster.

With more people being able to work with the latest set of information make innovation easier to come by. Mainly because the odds of someone coming to a new way to use, or to work with, something are more likely with more people working on the subject. And, if those people can collaborate with each other in a more practical and efficient way, those innovations would come at a lower cost and more people could have access to them.

We need licenses that facilitate collaboration, not licenses that hinder it. Those licenses should allow people to change and redistribute those changes in a easy and practical way, while protecting the right of the authors.

All interested parties should be able to do any changes as they see suit, and to be able to contribute those changes back to the community. Emphasis should be to make it easier on facilitating the work of thinkers and innovators to work and give back.

Knowledge should be open to all who wants it.