On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Rich Pieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/25/2016 5:04 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > I am saying that a Free Software license would provide greater access to > public > > works. I said nothing about denying access. Instead, I point out that > when > > You wrote: > > >> it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have > greater > >> access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into > >> proprietary works. > > You assert that OSS means greater access than free (as in FSF) software. > How is what you wrote *not* about denying or restricting access? > > You talk about freedom to compete. I'm talking about freedom to cooperate. I maintain that an individual person can't compete with a billion dollar corporation, so that's not freedom to me. On the other hand, a person can freely cooperate with a corporation of any size. Thus we have two different views of freedom. > > public works can be turned into proprietary works that THEN we the > people would > > be denied free access. > > Hardly. A BSD license, for example, would ensure that everyone has equal > access to the Govt's code whether it be for proprietary uses or > otherwise. The GPL, on the other hand, would restrict use of public > works to only non-proprietary uses. > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
