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From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>
Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
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At 23:12 13-05-2000 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
>Programmers should have unrestricted freedom to pursue material
>comforts. Giving away software is not incompatible with this freedom.
>
>What the BSD's need to do to divert programmer mindshare away from
>the popular GPL theme, is effective delivery of the above message.

Well put. :) And quite important. My own tendency to take a stand on GPL is
motivated by the dictum, "all that is needed for evil to triumph is for
good people to do nothing."

I tend to take an active approach. For example, when I released gracula
(graphic counter language), a French gentleman created a number of counters
using it. He released them under GPL. I contacted him and asked him to
reconsider. He decided it was not worth it because it was "only counters"
(what a thing to say to the creator of graphic counter language! <g>). But
at least he added a note to all his counters that while his counters were
gpled, gracula (my software) was not.

Cheers,
Adam


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