Xref: utzoo comp.misc:6682 alt.flame:8336 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!bionet!apple!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ontek!john From: john@ontek.UUCP (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.flame Subject: Re: The GNU Public License Summary: The GNU you... Message-ID: <419@ontek.UUCP> Date: 31 Jul 89 18:33:46 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <1811@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Organization: Ontek Corporation, Laguna Hills, CA Lines: 25 In article <1811@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: > > FSF will not kill the computer industry. And why is this in comp.misc > anyway? Intellectual property rights sounds more like a topic for It is in comp.misc because the place it really belongs (i.e gnu.misc.discuss) has been declared off-limits to this sort of discussion. I think that sort of tells you just how open anyone at FSF is going to be to criticism of or commentary about the various GNU ideas they have. I actually like the idea of the copyleft. It is a wonderfully idealistic goal, and as such has little if any use in the commercial world. I will gladly use any and all GNU software for developing code for my own purposes, but I will never be able to use it as part of my job. That is as it should be. If you need to treat software as a commercial product, then you produce it with other commercial products, and everyone is happy. If you want to treat software as a universal resource, then you are free to use the GNU tools. Seems eminently fair to me. What people seem to be complaining about is that they cannot use a set of tools intended to promote the free distribution of information to keep information secret. Sorry about that, folks. Free means FREE. JAS @ Ontek Corp. The opinions expressed above may or may not be those of Ontek Corporation. If you want to find out, you'll have to ask it yourself. Go ahead, I dare you!