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. --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Submission to Innovation Strategy | No2Violence in Politics http://www.flora.ca/innovation-2002.shtml | http://www.no-dot.ca/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
