Alexander Terekhov wrote:
http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/prophet.shtml#Jihad
It's particularly telling that the article goes on to list the Microsoft 24 concern-troll questions about the GPL. Those are all written with the aim of frightening developers who want to deprive users of the four freedoms away from the GPL. That's fine. Developers who want to deprive users of the four freedoms really should be scared of the GPL. Again, the GPL is not for developers. It's for users. Developers who don't want their users to have the four freedoms are invited to stay away from the GPL. The positive economic side of the GPL is that software is paid for by those people who need it immediately. Once the software exists, it can be shared with everybody - the ones who paid for it originally having the benefit of getting exactly what they need. In this way, a body of free software is built up which benefits everybody. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
