Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 18:57:15 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Opposing" the "competition" (was: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705185450.04581f00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <15173.2796.630368.467005@guru.mired.org> References: <xzp3d8bui25.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705135915.00bb8a80@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705125524.04502690@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107031644410.16320-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> <20010703134058.A9446@mooseriver.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705171812.04523b00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705162529.04521930@localhost> <15172.52545.788676.736485@guru.mired.org> <xzp3d8bui25.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 06:48 PM 7/5/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >If their understanding is no better than it was before the GPL was >introduced, that's certainly true. A large percentage of them simply >slapped "This code is in the public domain. Not for commercial use." - >or words to that effect - on their code. > >For such people the GPL is an improvement, as it comes much closer to >their intent than what they were doing before. The GPL is far worse than this because it is viral. >Personally, I think this is a misuse of the word "coerce". Not so. It is entirely appropriate. Stallman even speaks of using the GPL to coerce organizations to reveal their code. >I'm also surprised to see you claiming that copyright holders >shouldn't be allowed to extract payment from people who want to use >their works. They will get no payment from anyone who is rational. Once code has been released under the GPL, the market value of its functionality is zero. To pay to license something that has zero market value is folly. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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