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GPL and Copyright
Raymond's Open Source shouldn't be confused with Stallman's Free Software. They're not really the same thing. The Free software movement tends to be the more militant of the two.

But consider this: the Free Software movement and the GPL are dependent on copyright law. Without it, everything would be in the public domain and very little source code would be shared.

The anarchists you want to point to in this story tend to align with Open Source because they view it as "Sticking it to the man." (I date myself with that phrase.) They want to see the abolishment of copyright. They are not really part of the Free Software movement.

Since I'm on the subject, I think that software should only be under copyright if its source code is made available so that the program can be used and modified once the copyright has expired.
Posted by: daengbo   Posted on: 08/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Well, Dana...  Userama | 08/26/08
troops !?  shis-ka-bob | 08/26/08
commitee is more like it... not troops.  shryko | 08/27/08
still a military analogy  shis-ka-bob | 08/27/08
RE: Open source extremism lives  btidwell | 08/26/08
Not the same thing  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Maybe not the best example  btidwell | 08/26/08
GPL and Copyright  daengbo | 08/27/08
You are right about the distinction  btidwell | 08/27/08
What I said  daengbo | 08/27/08
open source extremism lives.....  xuniL_z | 08/26/08
It's everywhere  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Yup, Windows extremists too...  TtfnJohn | 08/27/08
Differences  xuniL_z | 08/28/08
Open source extremism lives AND turns  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
You used to be fun, now you're just boring.  kozmcrae | 08/26/08
Ah, an extremist tells me  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
It's gotta hurt then that...  T1Oracle | 08/28/08
I was under the impression...  AndyCee | 08/27/08
Did you expect party discipline?  John L. Ries | 08/26/08
Good one, John  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 08/26/08
Stallman and 'extremists'  shis-ka-bob | 08/26/08
Indeed.. Right On  TedKraan | 08/27/08
Absolutely agree.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/26/08
Thing is, though  TtfnJohn | 08/27/08
Open source is not a business movement  jimmyed2000 | 08/28/08
Not quite  Someguy2 | 09/03/08
RE: Open source extremism lives  joshuagay | 09/09/08

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