Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] > the same thing that the GPL preamble says, that they're using > the law against itself ...
Yeah. The next step is to pretend to use a law meant to, say, prevent child pornography against itself and procalim that the law is now being used to force child pornography via a "private agreement" intended to "substantially oust public law institutions" suggesting that such a private agreement is totally legal and fully enforceable. Are you really that insane to buy such "jujitsu" insanity, Hyman? http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html ----- In a 1986 interview with Byte magazine, Stallman summed up the GPL in colorful terms. In addition to proclaiming hacker values, Stallman said, readers should also "see it as a form of intellectual jujitsu, using the legal system that software hoarders have set up against them."5 ----- BTW, the copyright law doesn't prevent sharing. It gives authors a right to charge more than zero for sharing. The GPL seeks to evaporate that right and impose licensing at no charge. What say you now, Hyman? regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
