Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:41:23 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: cjclark@home.com, adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav) Cc: kuehl@lgk.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Richard Stallman came to town Message-ID: <4.2.0.37.19990512233737.0441e410@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199905130247.WAA11499@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <19990512195044.B217@whizkidtech.net>
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At 10:47 PM 5/12/99 -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote: >Hmmm... I do not see how that can be true. The _original_ programmer, >the orginial copyright holder, cannot use his own code anyway he would >like? Sure, the copies of the code that are already out there are >really 'out there' and cannot be retroactively un-GNUed, but I don't >see how the original author is prevented from licensing a derivative >work, or even an unmodified version, anyway he sees fit. He may have the right to, but there's no point; no one will license functionality that users now expect to be free. >Huh? What's to stop that same kid from writing a copycat program and >distributing it as Shareware, under other Freeware licensing, or even >putting it in public domain. It's called "getting paid." The GPLed product has poisoned the well; forget about being able to make money from such a product. >I personally don't go to the >extreme that _all_ software should be GNU, but I do think that the >existence of GNU or a foundation actively trying to increase the pool >of GNU software is not evil. It's certainly destructive. It poisons markets and deprives programmers of their livelihoods. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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