The original comment was about open source (it may have been a joke, or maybe serious). However, you used the term "GPL" interchangeably, and that was the origin of my comment.
Anyway, some of us don't leave in academia-world and do consulting to pay the bills. In this business-world, we have to make the best decision for our customers and *explain* to them what is best for them. In certain cases, *shrug*, open source is not the best solution. In many scenarios, the license is the real deal killer. Sometimes, these companies don't feel comfortable with GPL - and with reason. But make no mistake, in many cases, GPL is used to protect the ***creator's*** original intention with the source code, not the ***user***. Actually, I am not against that, they created it, it is their *right* to do so. But calling that " freedom for the **user** " is just regurgitating licensing political speech. If you want to talk "freedom of the ***user***", then licenses like BSD give the ***user*** far more freedom. Ugh, I think I started a license talk. Lame. Sorry. Happy Holidays for everyone - even all you GPLv3-loving-people! :-) From: Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] Windows cheaper on the cloud? > To: SoCal LUG Users List <linuxusers@socallinux.org> > > "Are you on crack or straight up out of your mind? You cannot > possibly be serious with that statement." > > I will rephrase. I should have said: > > Any software project that says it is open source but is not GPL does > not have the users best interests, rights or protections in mind. The > other open source licenses are better then closed source policies, but > the GPL ensures the freedom of every user that uses the software. > > If that is crazy, then YES! I'm nuts. > > Chris... > > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dant...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> ?Any project that says it is open source but is > >> not GPL does not have the users rights and protections in mind. > > > > Are you on crack or straight up out of your mind? You cannot > > possibly be serious with that statement. > > > > -- > > Dante >
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