On 7/16/05, Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have written software that is used in house at work and is not publicly > released, > and if released would likely be GPL'd.
Free software is a matter of liberty not price. Writing free software doesn't have to mean distributing it. However, who are you to tell me that it should be GPL'd if you didn't write > it? To answer a question with a question: Who are you to be disallowed from giveing me your improvements to my code? I think what the FSF keeps trying to tell everyone is basically: when you write software then prevent its users, owners, or licensees from running, copying, distributing, studying, changing or improving that software you are doing harm to the software industry. Why not just throw away the source you wrote once you have the binaries? I don't think anyone in their right mind would do so. But that is basically what your doing to its users when you impose these sort of restrictions that RMS is adamantly opposed to, especially when you distribute them with these restrictions. Remember what fired him up in the first place? I agree %100 that you should be able to decide who does what with your code. But I also agree with the FSS that programmers should only write free code. About the GNU/Linux debate, I don't care. I call it linux. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050718/fc86b0ff/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 18 15:01:22 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Baudouin) Date: Mon Jul 18 15:00:13 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] firefox? old machines? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WTF? We have a Gentoo developer here in our own lowly town of Baton Rouge, LA? I've been using it since 2002. I've contributed a few ebuilds to bugzilla only to find others had already submitted them and they just hadn't made it out to portage yet. A lot of people just don't want to put up with the hours (days on a old machine!)-long compiles and just live with the binary tbz2's. :) Jory A. Pratt wrote: > Well I have to say firefox on an old machine should be self > compiled not a binary from a distrobution. The binary installer is for > i686 so that is kinda pointless but what can I say I develop for > gentoo as you can see and I prefer every package to be build customly > for my system. > > On a side not I will be coming to the meeting you all have tonight > if anyone is interested in discussion I am easy to find I wear a > Penguin Geek Computers shirt or you can holler Anarchy and I will > respond :)) > > So I shall see you all tonight if you have any questions feel free > to ask and I will do my best to answer them the best I can. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
