Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:16:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <20010418032018.S12981-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418003011.045ef3b0@localhost>
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> Stallman's rhetoric is doublespeak. The truth is that he condones > the selling of plastic disks (a low-profit, low-skill endeavor) but > not the selling of software. (According to the GPL, GPLed software > itself may NOT be licensed for money.) The only parts of the GPL I see that mention money are: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. and [...]give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code [...] Are you saying that hiring someone to make changes to a GPL'd program would violate this second provision? > He approves of the trade in disks > because (a) it furthers his agenda; (b) it allows the FSF to make a bit > of cash; and (c) he knows that the "parasites" (his own word) who sell > disks, such as Red Hat, will not be able to make a living as soon > as high bandwidth connections to the Net are ubiquitous. I guess the FSF will have to run off donations when that happens. > Gates' statement is carefully contrived propaganda that attempts > to justify the actions of a monopolist. At first it seemed to me that he understood that a monopoly needs a healthy host to feed off. On second thought, perhaps he has other ideas. -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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