Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 23, 2002 09:56 PM
"The GPL does not require you to give your software away... you can charge whatever you want to your customers, and you only have to give source to code your customers."
In reality thats just bullshit. The problem you see is that the first customer just uploads the whole thing (binary+source) so that anyone can download it. This is what makes GPL-covered software impossible to sell.
"The whole purpose of the GPL is NOT to de-capitalize the industry. Its main purpose is to keep large companies from taking open standards and adding non-compatible proprietary "extensions" for their own purpose. It's the classic "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" tactic used by AT&T, MS, IBM, etc. Microsoft has made a career on this, and that's why the GPL has them frightened."
The purpose of the GPL is to advance the cause of socialism (sharing economy). The GPL has written by the free software foundation, not the open source community. The open source community is not a politial one but basically what you describe but they did not write the GPL. The free software foundation is a fully political movement that aims at removing ownership.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 23, 2002 09:56 PMIn reality thats just bullshit. The problem you see is that the first customer just uploads the whole thing (binary+source) so that anyone can download it. This is what makes GPL-covered software impossible to sell.
"The whole purpose of the GPL is NOT to de-capitalize the industry. Its main purpose is to keep large companies from taking open standards and adding non-compatible proprietary "extensions" for their own purpose. It's the classic "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" tactic used by AT&T, MS, IBM, etc. Microsoft has made a career on this, and that's why the GPL has them frightened."
The purpose of the GPL is to advance the cause of socialism (sharing economy). The GPL has written by the free software foundation, not the open source community. The open source community is not a politial one but basically what you describe but they did not write the GPL. The free software foundation is a fully political movement that aims at removing ownership.
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