Hi!
13-Фев-2004 03:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
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MD> XYZ isn't the application. ABC+XYZ is the application. GPL forces ABC
MD> developer to do things he or she may not want to do. That, in a nutshell,
MD> is not giving your ABC developer full freedom.
Society prohibits killers freedom. Who discontented (beside killers)?
In case of software: if you wish to _reuse_ free software sources, pay for
this by freeing your sources, or don't use others free sources. This is much
more fair, than (hidden) _theft_ of others work (getting money without
paying back to society, from where free of charge sources was extracted).
MD> Simply because many Open Source/FreeSoftware advocates believe that
MD> developers should act a certain way towards source code does not mean that
MD> it is what everyone else believes or should believe.
You _may_ not believe. There is Microsoft, which doesn't believes. Time
shows who is right.
MD> They cannot be allowed to redefine "free" to favor their desires of what
MD> people should do with source code.
They may define anything what users may do with source code, but why
they wish to call this "free"?
MD> I frequently see this semi-religious attitude in the more
MD> fanatical advocates of the Open Source movements and it drives me nuts.
MD> Open source is not more free than public domain.
Mistake. "Open sources" or "free of charge" isn't equal to free(dom)
(of usage and distribution). (Though, FSF defines freedom as _including_
open sources). PD isn't eqaul to "open sources" (there may be distributed
only executables without sources), nor freedom (in FSF sense, which includes
open sources).
MD> Another important point: even were ABC+XYZ destroyed per your example, the
MD> original XYZ remains for DEF, and GHI, and any of whatever alphabet soup of
MD> developers want to use it. Without restrictions.
But fixes/improvements, which made in XYZ for ABC, will be lost, and
this work should be performed again and again for each next XYZ usage...
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