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The process has to benefit all or I am against it.
I do not see the GPL benefiting all as you guys claim. It displaces jobs with lower paying ones except key players and the companies go under at a rate high than proprietory houses.

1 case in Germany only. It hasn't been proven anywhere else. I do respect intelectual property but I do not have to agree with the GPL. Big Difference.

As I recall, everyone uses the FreeBSD stack. Its license hands it out willingly for all of those university grants in the past.

The GPL makes sure that the software stays in the public domain. This act is a declarition of war on IP that is closely guarded secret. Since the author of the GPL is rabidly anti-closed source, you do not have to put 2 + 2 to figure out the intended design of the GPL.

Freedom is mainly for people. Even our founding fathers had no problem for patents and copyright. The GPL is copyright to fight copyright that worked well for 500 years. There is no benefit to this business model.
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You know what they say...  NonZealot | 04/08/05
Oh heck Linus is having a midlife crisis  Squawkbox | 04/08/05
Let the work start on an open source replacement for BK.  DonnieBoy | 04/08/05
BitKeeper is a key tool for the kernel developers ...  George Mitchell | 04/08/05
Yes, with what BK did, this will attract some of the best.  DonnieBoy | 04/08/05
BK will be gone within a year.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/08/05
How do I convert to CVS?  spritzydog | 04/08/05
Not surprising  NonZealot | 04/08/05
I totally agree with u..  Kamakazii | 04/08/05
No, it is just that we can not have one company holding us hostage.  DonnieBoy | 04/08/05
I think you are missing something here ...  George Mitchell | 04/09/05
No, sounds more like...  doe_z | 04/08/05
Bite the hand that feeds you  osreinstall | 04/08/05
No, it is that Linux trusted him and was betrayed.  DonnieBoy | 04/09/05
Your logic is flawed  osreinstall | 04/09/05
Really, so many benifit from Linux, this is cooperation at its best.  DonnieBoy | 04/10/05
Not really.  B.O.F.H. | 04/09/05
Yes really  osreinstall | 04/09/05
I get the impression you have little experience in systems (or Unix).  B.O.F.H. | 04/09/05
Gratitude escapes you guys  osreinstall | 04/09/05
You are a history revisionist now?  B.O.F.H. | 04/09/05
I can tell by your post that your a know it all. - NOT!  osreinstall | 04/09/05
it's a source code revision system, that's all  hipparchus2001 | 04/10/05
Your analogy is wrong  osreinstall | 04/10/05
copy?  hipparchus2000 | 04/10/05
Another one with convient vision  osreinstall | 04/10/05
osreinstall, you really need to get a clue!  B.O.F.H. | 04/10/05
The process has to benefit all or I am against it.  osreinstall | 04/10/05
You are welcome to give up your freedoms!  B.O.F.H. | 04/10/05
And another salvo  osreinstall | 04/10/05
Corporations are interesting entities!  B.O.F.H. | 04/10/05
And so are you  osreinstall | 04/10/05
Proprietary software vendors have a choice ...  George Mitchell | 04/09/05
Everyone has a choice  osreinstall | 04/09/05
Choice when it comes to operating systems is a new innovation ...  George Mitchell | 04/09/05
Some choice  osreinstall | 04/09/05
Re: Some choice  George Mitchell | 04/11/05
There were choices that you didn't like was more like it  osreinstall | 04/11/05
You seem confused  hipparchus2001 | 04/10/05
You seem dishonest  osreinstall | 04/10/05
How GPL software devalue proprietary software if GPL software not as good  hipparchus2000 | 04/10/05
Another one that cant see it.  osreinstall | 04/10/05
Look whatever, you haven't addressed ANY of my points  hipparchus2000 | 04/10/05
Another one that cant see the whole picture only GPL matters  osreinstall | 04/10/05
There's nothing in the Bill of Rights etc called "Intellectual Property"  hipparchus2000 | 04/10/05
Nice try Guy  osreinstall | 04/10/05
source pollution  hipparchus2000 | 04/10/05
Re: Pollution  osreinstall | 04/10/05
Simply the facts ...  George Mitchell | 04/11/05
It's just a source repository  hipparchus2000 | 04/09/05
Breaking free  ManyEyes | 04/09/05
What I still hear here...  Omch'Ar | 04/10/05
I've got to say, I'd never use something like this  hipparchus2000 | 04/10/05
A new alternative to BK  b_rahul | 04/11/05
Come ON!  mork451 | 04/13/05

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