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> > I'm just saying that any company that I start won't,
> > and that's my target audience - people who want
> > genuinely free code, not Stallman's definition of
> > "free" that is as free as communist dictatorships
> > were.
>
> Why are you so obsessed with Richard Stallman?
I'm no more obsessed with Stallman than I am with
communist or other dictators creating a definition
of "free" to mean "not free".
> And what exactly does he
> have to do with the MIT or BSD Licenses?
It doesn't. It's just more people being dogs
in mangers, requiring a body of work to be
redone. Or we wait about 150 years for it to
enter the public domain regardless.
> > > Also, you seem to think the MIT License and the BSD Licenses
> > > are like "communism" — but a piece of code placed under a
> > > proprietary license is a sign of "reputation" and therefore
> > > Good™ and very "freedom".
> > I didn't make that claim either.
> > I have no opinion on what proprietary license any
> > particular company may choose to place on their
> > commercial product.
>
> And yet you are somehow sure that such a proprietary license will be
> preferable to a "communist" MIT or BSD License?
No, I didn't make that claim either.
They are all copyrighted works, some object code
only, and not remotely public domain.
I understand companies putting copyright on their
code to protect their investment.
But freeware authors putting copyright on their
code to peddle some strange philosophy is a
wasted opportunity to give the public something
as free as sunlight to help anyone who could
benefit from help.
BFN. Paul.
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