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Forwarded: rant against the GPL

From: aland_-at-_striker.ottawa.on.ca (Alan DeKok)
Date: 10 Jul 2000 10:29:11 -0400

  I posted a message to BugTraq on Friday about a GPL'd program I had
written.  I received a response from someone who didn't appear to like
the GPL.  When asked why, he responded thus:

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:34:30 -0600
To: Alan DeKok <aland@striker.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Brett Glass <brett@XXX.org>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: PScan, a simple security scanner. 

At 04:25 PM 7/7/2000, Alan DeKok wrote:
  
>> GPLed? Sorry, then the code won't get in our door. We might
>> do a BSD-licensed equivalent, though.
>
>  Why does it make any difference?

Because the GPL is the implementation of a spiteful agenda whose 
express purpose is to destroy markets and busineses and threaten
programmers' livelihoods. We avoid GPLed software, and encourage
others to do so, both for ethical reasons and because we wish to 
prevent it from harming ourselves, other developers, and consumers.
Simply put, the use of the GPL is unethical and wrong.

- --Brett Glass


------- End of Forwarded Message

  (I've changed his email address to maintain his privacy.)


  This message is just to let you know what other people think.  I
think this view is a little extreme, myself, but it is a nice
frothing-at-the-mouth anti-GPL quote. :)

  Alan DeKok.

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