Well said, with one minor note:


On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Manas Laha wrote:

> That is why the commercial types hate the GPL so, going even to the
> extent of calling it a cancer.

  Please separate "commercial" from "proprietary".  These two things are
not the same thing, although there is a well-funded lobby that is trying
to convince people that it is.


  This lobby suggests that the only way to make money with knowledge is to
make it artificially scarce by making it proprietary.  This is something
that thousands of years of services markets indicates is false. These
markets existed and thrived long before the concept of making knowledge
artificially scarce was dreamt up.

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