From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 23 12:13:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D88B153AC; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA20971; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:13:06 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991123131034.047b2510@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:13:02 -0700 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991123111417.ADEA714BEC@hub.freebsd.org> References: <4.2.0.58.19991122231524.0442bdd0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:14 AM 11/23/1999 -0800, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > as a swag (silly wild as guess) one might say: > > free speech refers to a constraint on the powers of >government. > > free code refers to a constraint on the powers of companies. Not a very good analogy, IMHO, for several reasons. First, individuals are handicapped more by the GPL than are large companies. Second, the First Amendment actually says, "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech," etc. Thus, the First Amendment actually dictates an ABSENCE of constraints, whereas the GPL is all about setting up constraints that sabotage individuals and businesses. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message