Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:42:55PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
Or perhaps "I really want to make Bill Gates and Steve Jobs rich for no
compensation and lose the right to expand on what I myself first
created", which IIRC was the thing that originally sent RMS off the deep
end with the LISP Machine.
ah, but you see, the BSD license _does_ protect your copyright, so
no one can deny that it was you who are the inventor. you just
need to capitalize on that. come on, you're giving away your
code with either license. don't complain that you not getting rich
by giving something away. if your code is so great that it ends up
everywhere (even if through M$'s marketing machine), then surely you
are valuable!
That isn't quite the part that got RMS' goat; rather, the code that was
accessible to him to extend before, went away, and took the license to
his extensions with it. Proprietarization is exactly the thing BSD
license allows.
The GPL could legitimately be seen as a proprietary license, in the same
sense that a public park is not bonus nullius ; you can't set up a
homestead on it. I for my part find the world enhanced by both these
"unfreely free" things.
IMO, most of the world's ills are due to lack of trust.
Most of the world's lack of trust is due to bitter experience.
then don't do things that you will end up bitter about!
That sentence is 7 words longer than necessary. If i had the prophecy
to put it into practice i'd be happier, thinner, and wealthier than i am
today; and i suspect that's true of some other participants on this list
as well.
--
Bullet points won't stop them...
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