On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:56, Zane Gilmore wrote: > But as Mike JS has pointed to on the GNU site there is a *moral/ethical* > argument here. They make an argument that it is fundamentally wrong on a > *moral* level to hide source code and restrict freedom of software. Exactly. None of the sites I linked to say that people should not profit for there creations.
While I am thinking of things that became popular because they are free, think of the Internet, which is only successful because anyone can implement the standards, suggest new standards, or alter the existing ones. ATM, which was designed to perform the same task as the Internet Protocol stack, was no where near as popular because it was not free. Now ATM is still only used by large telecommunications companies while the Internet ended up dominating the World. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
