On 2008-02-11 20:11, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > > It means that successful competition is reached by cooperation. The > > competition is not won on the old field, but by opening a new > > field. Example: Encyclopedia Britannica was out-cooperated by > > Wikipedia, not by competiting on the old proprietary field, but by > > opening a new field of free cooperation. And of course: Free > > software is on the way of out-cooperating proprietary software. > > But this requires people who believe in Free Software and Wikipedia. > > However it will lead to parallel existence of two systems and the > more authoritarian system which will dominate by force will win. This > force could be law. > Thus we have to fight back. The GNU GPL is such weapon, more > specifically a powerful virus which will infiltrate the copyright > system and finally let it collapse.
GPL is a defensive means, not an end in itself, our strength comes from cooperation. When exclusion by copyright goes, then GPL will go too. Ciao, Stefan -- Start here: www.meretz.de _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
