[ANNOUNCE] Umbra role-playing game 0.2 pre-alpha
Brandon J. Van Every
vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com
Fri Apr 20 22:57:48 EDT 2001
"Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes" <kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> wrote in message
news:slrn9e0tva.2cg.kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu...
>
> And of course, everyone has the right to put their own code under
> whatever license he likes... But using a virus license like his that
> takes away other peoples' rights to their own software, just by being
> mixed with his, is just vile.
Vile? That's silly. Your reaction is knee-jerk and shrill. If somebody
wants to GPL or LGPL their own software they can jolly well do so. Some
corporations and non-profit entities have given code away completely free
for any purpose whatsoever, just to get certain technological things to
happen, or as a loss leader for business power. The only difference between
RMS and anyone else is his personal religion about how one should get the
customer over the barrel. There's *always* a business model, somewhere.
Even if your business model is to give code away absolutely free for any
purpose no strings attached, just so that you can achieve a de facto
technological standard.
As you are so fond of saying yourself: Get Over It [TM].
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Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA
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