From: Lisias Toledo (lisias@unforgettable.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 07:09:48 CEST
Alfie Costa wrote:
> But freedom is a civic good, a public good.
Yap. But my freedom ends in the precise instant the next guy's freedom
starts.
> You couldn't have mu (at least as
> we know it) without the GPL; 'P' stands for "Public'.
Yap. But I can't see how the GPL can force Michelle to hear harsh
complains here. The GPL protects the Source Code, not the Mailing Lists.
> And without Richard
> Stallman's politically inspired GPL, (or something very much like it), we'd
> probably have no Linux.
IMHO, you're Wrong. Linus made Linux as GPL becasue GCC was GPL. There's
no other reason.
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-03/lw-03-opensources-p5.html
And don't forget FreeBSD. Without Linux, I think FreeBSD would be the
dominant Open Source O.S., and the main license the BSD one.
> (like making poison gas or something),
> but feel no responsibility for any bad results, because he is only a pure of
> faith scholar.
Blame the gun's inventor, but not the hand that pulls the trigger?
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