On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:18:57PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: Since the whole copyright discussion is over by popular demand, I won't answer that.
> Actually, I don't see absolute value in GPL existance. With all due > respect to RMS, his crusade against commercial software vendors doesn't > seem very important to me. Creating free software does seem, but I'm not > sure how much the restrictive nature of GPL had contributed to the free > software growth. Actually, I experienced numerous cases and heard about > even more cases that people had to rewrite certain pieces of code just to > get around GPL restrictions - which seems to me the contrary to the > purposes of the free software as I see them. In fact that's why after spending money to subsidise Linux development on the Macintosh, Apple abandoned it and went with BSD. For those that don't know, the actual operating system (called Darwin) is open source, the user interface (Aqua) is closed source. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 VoN Skype: mendelsonfamily ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
