Still no new license -- but draft text available
Olivier Dagenais
olivierS.dagenaisP at canadaA.comM
Thu Aug 10 17:26:00 EDT 2000
> > Stallman has fairly well soured on his whole "copyleft" notion
> > anyway. Free software is winning, the rest of us see little need
> > for communism. Which is exactly what copyleft is, IMO.
> What utter and total nonsense. Copyleft is not about communism, it is
> about removing artificial barriers to competition. Copyleft is, quite
> simply, cooperative-competition, which works by competing over "I have a
> better idea", rather than, "I've hidden my ideas".
This is the part about "Copyleft" that I don't understand: "I have a better
idea" will be a valid statement until you ship (or you check in your code),
at which point everybody else is free to use that "better idea". How can
you sell a product that is no better than your competitors'? Or rather, how
can you sell anything if the end user can simply build it themselves?
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Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III
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