On 12/12/06, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i am sure Dean and many others think the way they do because they've written some neat app on top of a Free stack and the heck they don't want their work to be "infected" with the viral GPL. he would find a ready and willing ally in Microsoft.
Actually, it's the other way around. I've written stuff which I want everyone -- and I mean everyone, yes including those who don't believe in the GPL or Free Software -- to use. I have slapped the Boost Software License to a lot of the code I've written, and I have no regrets doing it. Although I have written some not-yet-open source code, and some GPL-infected but in-house developed code, and yet some already under the GPL, I see no point in using _that_ as an assumption to base my arguments from. THIS is what I believe is freedom: letting everybody do anything they want with the code short of claiming that the code was theirs whether they use it for profit or for some other purpose. I like the BSD license and the Boost Software License which really gives more freedom than the infectious restriction-filled GPL -- which is only IMNSHO. Oh and about being an ally of Microsoft? I couldn't care less what Microsoft thinks about Open Source -- they're the best motivation out there that drives the hordes of Free Software and Open Source Software zealots and advocates, and I like it that way. Now as far as what you're assuming might be true, for the record Aker doesn't use any GPLed code. :D -- Dean Michael C. Berris http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com +63 928 7291459 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
