[CS-FSLUG] TD: (Im)morality of (non)free software
Eduardo Sanchez
lists at sombragris.org
Tue Mar 1 08:41:29 CST 2005
On Monday 28 February 2005 22:01, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>
> But what if they don't WANT to benefit the public? What if they wish
to
> be selfish? Why should they be denied the rights over their own code
> the original author had over his?
If they are selfish, great. Do not use the code and seek another code
suitable to your purpose. If you value so much proprietary rights, then
the issue of copyright which lies at the heart of the GNU GPL should be
of the utmost importance for you. Why is that you seem to value
proprietary software and selfish motives so much, and yet you fail to
value copyright restrictions? Seems like double-discourse to me.
> I say that users who
> insist on the GPL are selfish, and are making unreasonable demands on
> software developers.
What kind of unreasonable demands? If you don't like it, don't bother
with it, and don't use it.
> I say that the GPL system is based on the idea
> that users are more important than developers, and that users have the
> right to set terms about how developers develope. That would be well
> and good if it claimed to forward "code slavery" or "product
communism,"
> but it doesn't.
This is too heavy-handed and unreasonably ad-hominem. You should
apologize.
> It talks about freedom, and says that it is promoting
> that. Well it isn't. It takes away the rights of the few, so that
the
> many can have inalienable privelages. It disgusts me, and I'll not
> release my code under it.
>
Your mouth is full of saying how the GPL restricts those freedoms, and
yet you proclaim your (autonomous? or is it determined by fate?) choice
of not using it in your code. Ironic, isn't it?
Utter humbug. I expected something better, not fallacies and ad-hominem
attacks. This is just FUD.
I rest my case, I will not participate again in this thread.
Eduardo
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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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