>Anirban Biswas wrote: >Hi > > When RMS wrote GPL he kept in mind how a drug seller sells drug he at first >give free drugs & when ppl get affected he take as much money as can from >them > > Linking a GPLed lib with a closed exe is same thing at first they will get >you addicted then they will tell to get extra features you have to use thier >libs.
The thread has become a GPL vs. other licenses battlefield which is not what I intended to discuss at all. The objective of the GPL is to rid the world of proprietary software, which it seems to be doing very well :-) .. That's good enough for me. What I really wanted to know were concrete reasons as to why allowing closed source programs to interface with GPL'd code can be *anti-freedom*. This drug analogy is a good reason. Thanks for the answer Anirban :-) - AJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
