On 04/14/2011 11:38 AM, der Mouse wrote: >>> Here is why _we_ use *BSD: Because the license matters for us. >> I guess that attitude is ok if you always want to be a taker and >> never a giver. > > I avoid the GPL when feasible. The only GPLed software I write is > modifications to already-infected software and stuff I'm paid to write > under the GPL. > > This is not because I "want to be a taker rather than giver". Almost > everything I write I place in the public domain and put up for anyone > to fetch who cares to bother. > > It's because I don't want to impose the GPL's restrictions on my > software's recipients. It's because I resist being told I must do > something even if it is something I usually will do when able. It's > because I don't support the GPL's politics. > > The implication that anyone who prefers a freer license must "always > want to be a taker and never a giver" is not only logically > unjustifiable and factually wrong but outright insulting. >
That is great. But the issue is not the people that contribute but the people like MS who take the code use it and don't give anything back. The GPL trys to keep that from happening. -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: [email protected] http://www.netwolves.com _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
