>Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Anupam Jain wrote: > >> 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. > > It is essential that you get your terminology correct. The objective that you mention is that of the various FLOSS movements like GNU/FSF etc. GPL is just a licence and a tool for this movement.
All right. Though I was only echoing what Raj Mathur said. >Raj Mathur>I think you're confusing the goal of the GPL. The objective of the >Raj Mathur>person who wrote the GPL (and subsequently of many of us) is to create >Raj Mathur>a world without proprietary software, because software hoarding >Raj Mathur>reduces the amount of wealth in the world. Considered from this point >Raj Mathur>of view, the GPL is eminently suited to the task. - 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]/
