Re: The GPL and groupthink

2010-12-13 Thread David Kastrup
Lusotec nom...@nomail.not writes: [Rjack's off again] How very ridiculous, equalling GPL to communism. Do you even know what communism is? If you compare the writings of the founding fathers of communism with the actions of existing communist parties and governments, you'll find it hard to

Re: The GPL and groupthink

2010-12-13 Thread John Hasler
David Kastrup writes: If you compare the writings of the founding fathers of communism with the actions of existing communist parties and governments, you'll find it hard to believe that _anybody_ knows what communism is. That applies to any political ideology whose advocates have ever

Re: The GPL and groupthink

2010-12-13 Thread RJack
On 12/13/2010 4:22 AM, bbgruff wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010 01:01 Lusotec wrote: How very ridiculous, equalling GPL to communism. Do you even know what communism is? He's an American, posting via Thunderbird on Windows, and talking about BSD being Free while the GPL is communist! Does

Re: The GPL and groupthink

2010-12-13 Thread David Kastrup
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes: David Kastrup writes: If you compare the writings of the founding fathers of communism with the actions of existing communist parties and governments, you'll find it hard to believe that _anybody_ knows what communism is. That applies to any political

Re: The GPL and groupthink

2010-12-13 Thread Lusotec
RJack wrote: Here's a lucid article on the GPL groupthink attitude. http://linux.dracony.org/2010/12/11/stop-linux-communism/ ... 1) You can take a code of the BSD licensed software and make it your own. 2) You cannot appropriate the GPL licensed software (if so, you are punished).

Re: The GPL and groupthink

2010-12-13 Thread bbgruff
On Monday 13 December 2010 01:01 Lusotec wrote: How very ridiculous, equalling GPL to communism. Do you even know what communism is? He's an American, posting via Thunderbird on Windows, and talking about BSD being Free while the GPL is communist! Does that answer your question? :-)

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 15 December 2010 NYLUG: D. Levin, M. Russell, R. Salazar, Ubuntu, and Pizza, at Party

2010-12-13 Thread secretary
blockquote what=official NYLUG announcement edits= From: NYLUG Announcements i...@nylug.org To: NYLUG Announcements nylug-annou...@nylug.org Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:45:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: 12/15 @ 6:30PM David Levin, Mark Russell, and Roberto