On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:09:09AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Free software: It's all about the price. > The rest of the talk about "freedom", etc. is just trying to keep > them from looking like cheap, greedy bastards. > At least for an awful lot of 'em.
I have to point out that I have been told on this list by a GPL fan that the dictionary definition of freedom isn't correct. He was so friendly to ask me who the hell I was to tell him what freedom means. Freedom for him did mean free + random rules. For all the great things the GPL has done its followers really could do some reading on that whole "definition of words" thing. This copyright thing is a complete debacle and shows just how disingenuous some of the linux people are. There is no way I buy that the lawyers involved do not understand what they are doing. As a fan of the following quote: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" -- Napoleon Bonaparte I do not buy that the FSF (yes I said it) lawyers do not understand copyright law. Nobody with a degree in law is that stupid therefore I have to conclude that there is malice involved. The FSF should take a deep breath and apologize to Reyk, apologize to Theo, apologize to OpenBSD and apologize to the open source community at large.
