Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > LOL! >> > >> > Summary: >> > >> > "For those who have been reading/hearing Stallman for the past 10-plus >> > years as I have, this admission is shocking in the extreme. The GPL, >> > which is supposed to be the ultimate guarantor of software freedom, may >> > deliver the opposite. Because of its control-freak urges, it can stymie >> > competition, which is presumably why Stallman is now calling on the >> > European Commission to grant what his license couldn't: freedom." >> > >> > LMAO! >> >> A rather absurd diatribe apparently based on confusing "fork" with >> "dual-licensing". > > Dak, dak, dak. Stallman told the European Commission that > > "the lack of a more flexible license for MySQL will present considerable > barriers to a new forked development path for MySQL" > > http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/ec_letter_mysql_oct19.pdf > > Read it again, silly dak: > > THE LACK OF A MORE FLEXIBLE LICENSE FOR MYSQL WILL PRESENT CONSIDERABLE > BARRIERS TO A NEW FORKED DEVELOPMENT PATH FOR MYSQL.
Uh, you conveniently forgot to mention that this is about MySQL being licensed GPLv2 _only_ (not as common, GPLv2 or later). Since GPLv2 is being phased out in the marketplace, it is obviously a concern. > I've been telling all along that the GPL is unlawful anticompetitive > conspiracy blatantly violating Article 81 EC. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Community_competition_law#Collusion_and_cartels Now you are losing it. > Thanks a bunch to Richard Stallman for openly admiting it. I mean, _really_ losing it. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
