Date: 18 Dec 2001 14:19:14 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <0gn10gyxwd.10g@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost> References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes:
> Absolutely. It means the difference between earning a living and
> being deprived of one (which is one of the explicit goals of the
> GPL; see Stallman's "GNU Manifesto").
To be fair, he does want software developers to earn a living, but he
wants them to be paid by the hour or by the job, rather than living off
license royalties. It's a common socialist mindset that desparages the
capitalistic things like capital and investment and risk and winners and
loosers and especially profits. No doubt he also has trouble with our
entertainers making obscene money because many people want to pay ten
bucks to see a trashy movie. It'd be much better (in this mindset) to
just pay them up front to make and show the movie, and then let everyone
have the freedom to see it or not.
The other big motivation of the Manifesto is to discourage the
development of software which people are not allowed to repair and
enhance and pass along fixes and enhancements, by having the guild of
copyleftists hoard their software so it can't be used in non-guild
software.
Unfortunately, he also decided to punish developers who WILL allow
repair and enhancement (eg, FreeBSD) but won't join in the punishment of
others; that is way the GPL has no virus-escape clause for other open
software, which it easily could do. I don't understand why more people
don't find this bullying of other open ("free") software developers
distasteful.
> Not endlessly. But I am persistent because the issue is important
> and because FreeBSD is already in deep trouble. The GPL camel is
> already in the tent.
Wrong animal. It's a gnu.
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