Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:56:59 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: mcneills@inw.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good InfoWorld Article Message-ID: <199903021956.OAA66407@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302093341.040f2100@localhost> from Brett Glass at "Mar 2, 99 09:35:09 am"
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Brett Glass said:
>
> The only bad thing about Petreley's article is that he claims to be
> of what he calls the "Who Cares movement," meaning that he doesn't
> care (or claims not to care) about licensing issues. This is very
> bad judgment, because he is ignoring the destructive effects of
> the GPL.
>
There are two predominant groups who like GPL:
1) Those who don't understand that it is contrary to their long term
interests, like programmers.
2) Those who understand that it keeps programmers out of the money
pipeline -- in essence, those who use GPLed code as fuel for their
business and don't want the risk of the programmers being able to
wrestle control of the software (with the programmers innovations.)
There is also a third group:
3) Those who hate the notion that creative programming should be
profitable to the small-time programmer. It is probably some
kind of self hatred complex. (The GPL-leader seems to be in
this category.)
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.
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