Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
know what proprietary means. if you don't
understand the big words, stop using them. you also totally failed to
comprehend the license.
No, I understood it quite well.
Yes, no I did not understood it nor not quite never well.
what i find even more hysterical is your claim that running a 5 year
old rogue clone is needed to get your work done.
What I find even more hysterical is your lack of english comprehension,
for what I said is that restrictions against commercial usage make it
proprietary, not that I need that piece of software.
Rui
Last time I tried to download VirtualBox emulator (GPL'd), they would
not let a company download the binary compiled versions of VirtualBox
for commercial use... i.e. they were restricting my commercial use of
the software only to source code copies, which is obnoxious and
restrictive. To me and 99 percent of other companies, only the binaries
are the things we care about for the working emulator package. Having
the source code is an additional nice extra to have, but not essential.
Personal users are of course allowed to download the VirtualBox binaries
- but companies are forced to download the obnoxious sources only.
GPL software can therefore be proprietary software (since your
definition of proprietary software is restricting the commercial users).
Several GNU softwares out there restrict the binaries from companies or
restrict other factors.. such as documentation and consulting (which
could be recorded on audio tapes and copied millions of times instead).
