amicus_curious wrote:
Second, I am saying that the GPL has no utility because it is trying to protect against something that is not important.
The freedom for users to be able to run, read, change, and share programs is important to the FSF, and the GPL was created to further those goals. Different people find different issues to be important. I expect that the FSF continues to believe in the importance of its goals, even if you do not.
In doing that, it stifles what little benefit is really provided
> to software developers via open source. The FSF is OK with that, as are the programmers who contribute to GPLed projects. No one owes software developers anything. If some are feeling upset because they are not being offered things for free that they would like to have, too bad for them. Dangling shiny toys in front of them is what the GPL is supposed to do. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
