op 30-09-14 17:22, [email protected] schreef: > Modification: Flowers for your garden > > Free Software is like buying flowers for your garden. If the seed of > those flowers spreads and you get more flowers, you can give those > seeds or flowers away if you want to. Proprietary software is like > signing an agreement that you will never ever use or give away those > seeds or flowers. > > And accordings to my mother, in the gardening community, such an idea > would be considered madness and an insult to the craft. ;)
There are many patents on plants and seeds, see: http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/ http://seedfreedom.in/learn/who-owns-the-seed/ But I like: "Proprietary software is like patented seed". With regards, Paul van der Vlis -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
