Originally posted by wizard69
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Richard Stallman Reportedly Steps Down As Head Of The GNU Project
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Originally posted by Niarbeht View Post
Free association.
If a bunch of people who work with a douche tell the douche to leave, that's none of your damn business unless you're either the douche, or one of the douche's co-workers.
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Originally posted by Templar82 View PostA dark day for free software.
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the only one?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the Superman?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the one you want?
Hey Richard Stallman, shotgun!
It's a dark day for free software
It's a dark day for a GNU software
It's a nice day to start again
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
Hey Richard Stallman, what have you done?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the only one?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the Superman?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the one you want?
Hey Richard Stallman, shotgun!
It's a dark day for free software
It's a dark day for a GNU software
It's a nice day to start again
Can you people believe what sanitarium this has become?
I remember how this has been foreseen right here in these forums. Now it became reality.
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Originally posted by kravemir View Post
I'm not a lawyer, just a software developer, and previously GPL-fanboy programming hobbyist. As, that "GPL-fanboy", I liked idea of must-publish source-code, from perspective of "taker", where I liked availability of software to all people poor/rich. However, as father feeding family via software development, I realize the need to be rewarded for work. Software is developed for months for "free", until it's finished (to usable degree), and then sold/made-available. GPL's viral requirement to publish source code, allows competitors to just copy the source-code and use it without the having to invest their own resources into research and development. Therefore, months of previous development get unpaid. So, GPL heavily enforces "free" as in free beer, and not "free" as in freedom of speech.
In the end, software is a tool, or toy. And, if user/customer benefits from having the tool, he pays for it,... I like "charity aspect" of free software solutions available to end-users, but we don't live utopia, that freedom (as in free beer) can be enforced for one type of goods - software, because developers also need to get paid to acquire other types of goods needed for their survival and happy living.
In fact, I'd say that releasing source code under GPL while selling the binary may well be a profitable business. Although it depends a lot on the type of software, presence of secret keys/data, contribution policy etc.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
Hey Richard Stallman, what have you done?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the only one?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the Superman?
Hey Richard Stallman, GNU's the one you want?
Hey Richard Stallman, shotgun!
It's a dark day for free software
It's a dark day for a GNU software
It's a nice day to start again
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