Re: The Free Software Definition - Free Software Foundation

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Oct 24, 11:35 am, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:

>> Back again to Stallman's totalitarianism, and I'll clean that up by
>> withdrawing the comment altogether, but my point is really that software
>> authors should be remunerated as in every profession.

>There are two major flaws in this statement: one being that remuneration 
>can only be measured in dollars, the other being the completely 
>inappropriate use of the term 'totalitarianism'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism

The comparison is fair I think. You said it yourself... "the GPL forbids 
linking against
proprietary software". If it's free it's free...

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>If one appreciates the difference between copyright and license, one can 
>see how the GPL can in fact be very useful. A classic example is the 
>company TrollTech, who develop the UI library Qt.

I own current Qt licences for both Windows and Linux.  I also own current 
licences for all of Microsoft Language Products. Both are excellent. I don't 
see much difference in their licencing.

>And you call this Totalitarian? :-)

The GPL is just as restrictive in it's own way.

>then you might have an idea of what totalitarian actually means.

Brutal Matt! You remind me of a pitbull.

Bill