Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes: > In gnu.misc.discuss Hadron <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes: > >>> In gnu.misc.discuss Doctor Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:45:12 +0000 (UTC), Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>>>> It seems Matt has long misunderstood the GPL. > >>>> Like 99 percent of people who through some unfortunate process come in >>>> contact with it. > >>> I wouldn't know, since I don't know any such people. I know lots of >>> people whose contact with the GPL is benign, rewarding and profitable. > >> You might need to educate a few Gnome developers then you are claiming >> they need to move to some third world shit hole to live on their OSS >> "donations". > > Please don't project your opinions onto me with insulting words like > "claiming". I have expressed no opinion on "third world shit holes", and > don't intend to. I have no need whatsoever to educate Gnome developers. > > As I said, I don't know anybody whose contact with the GPL has been > through "some unfortunate process".
Then you haven't looked very far. > >>> I can't really see where misfortune enters into any contact with the >>> GPL. Stupidity, certainly, but hardly misfortune. > >> Day in day out the GPL is turned inside out. It's easy to CLAIM it's >> easy but fact does not bond with your fiction. > > Huh? The GPL is perfectly plain and straightforward and means what it > says. You don't even need to get a lawyer to explain it to you, though > you certainly should consult one if you're going to be redistributing > GPL'd software. And yet meanwhile in the real world people are confused. You're so full of your own opinion you can not see the reality from your ivory tower. > > The only people who "find" it difficult to understand are those who wish > to violate it and FUDsters who wish to propagate the unfounded notion > that nasty unforseen things can happen to people using or modifying GPL'd > software. > > And please lose that nasty "CLAIM" word. I used it incorrectly there. "you" was supposed to be "who". -- In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you’re linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. — Dennis Miller _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
