Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:25:20 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL v. BSD and fragmentation Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000823132044.057d1ba0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000822063012.F10643@riverstyx.net> References: <20000822141843.C27208@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000822141843.C27208@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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At 07:30 AM 8/22/2000, Tani Hosokawa wrote: >Congratulations. Now you understand the GPL philosophy -- intellectual >property in the form of software has no intrinsic value beyond the time >it took to create it. Richard Stallman wants intellectual property to have no value AT ALL. He frequently states, publicly, that he believes the concept of intellectual property to be "evil" and seeks to undermine it at every turn. For example, he states that a composer of music should be able to make money only by being paid to perform. (Of course, the flaw in this is that the composer is not necessarily a performer. What's more, a musician is unlikely to be able to make a reasonable living solely by being paid to play.) > Either believe that and use the GPL, or don't, >and use some other license. The problem is that the GPL is coercive. More and more, it is taking over and destroying markets, leaving no choice other than GPLed software. >You do, however, have the right to continue to modify the original work >that came along before the GPL and sell that as a commercial product. But you won't be able to. People will go for what's GPLed and therefore free of cost to them so long as it's "good enough." What's more, the GPL zealots will copy your value added and put it in the GPLed version. You're out of business. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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