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Re: Forwarded: rant against the GPL

From: russell_-at-_flora.ottawa.on.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 10 Jul 2000 11:13:30 -0400
References: <20000710105548.F2039@grendel.conscoop.ottawa.on.ca>

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:

> It would be entertaining to have a panel with him and RMS.  Anyone
> want to arrange this for the entertainment of the rest of us?  ;-)

  I don't think there would be enough language in common to have a
coherant conversation.  Then again, maybe that's the point.

  The rheteric Brett spouted didn't make any sence to me. Anti-business?  
I guess the only business he recognizes is a monopoly.  I personally
support free markets, not the monopoly markets he seems to be discussing.  

  I also don't have any respect for programmers who have such low opinions
of their own abilities to believe that having a monopoly on the sharing a
concept of piece of code is the only way they would ever be paid for their
craft.

  Then again, I shouldn't be too harsh.  I don't use BSD licenced code
when a GPL alternative exists for similar (yet opposite) reasons. I see
BSD licenses as a "licence to steal" (IE: Derivative works allowed to be
proprietary) and about as morally valid as Corporate Welfare. I have no
internal motivation to ever contribute to a BSD licenced project.  Hell, I
used Linux for many years believing that FreeBSD was technologically
superior but ran Linux for moral reasons.

---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/>
 http://www.flora.org/flora.announce/112 Commuter Challenge: We won!
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