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You are welcome to give up your freedoms!
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.

All the GPL does is provide a license to protect small developers from getting ripped of for their work. If you don't want to use it, that is fine. There are many other licenses (both Open Source and Commercial). I am not sure how the key players come into your arguement, though.

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.

The GPL is only 1 license, if you don't want to use it then don't. If you choose to create your own EULA, go for it! But stop whining about the GPL!

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

The BSD network stack was created by BBN for the DARPA/Internet project backin the late 60's to early 80's, first implemented on BSD Unix. The University did not create it!

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.

Stallman is a physicist, he didn't want to et screwed by commercial interests for hs work. I am guessing that you don't mind if some corporation takes your work and gives you nothing. That is your right.

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.

The freedom that GPL refers to is the freedom for the individual to do what the want with the code they write. I am guessing fom your posts that you prefer corporations to tell you how to use a given piece of software.
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Yes really  osreinstall | 04/09/05
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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
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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
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Everyone has a choice  osreinstall | 04/09/05
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Some choice  osreinstall | 04/09/05
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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
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What I still hear here...  Omch'Ar | 04/10/05
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Come ON!  mork451 | 04/13/05

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