[LINK] Apple's Intel Desktop Move Threatens Linux Desktop, Longhorn

Deus Ex Machina vicc at cia.com.au
Thu Jun 9 21:56:05 EST 2005


Danny Yee [danny at anatomy.usyd.edu.au] wrote:
> You do know that the GNU Foundation used to support itself by selling
> GPLed software?
> 
> While some people have been known to wish that the GPL forbade military
> use or criminal use, or placed other such constraints on use, it very
> clearly allows any use whatosever, whether commercial or not.
> 
> And indeed business of all sizes use GPLed software, in all kinds of
> applications, and derive great value from it.  The idea that the GPL
> is anti-commercial is incorrect, and very obviously so.

get off the weed danny, its bad enough craig sharing his day tripping tendencies.

if gpl is so damn good at creating a market why is red hat network not gpl?

where are the markets for paid gpl software? sourceforge? I dont think so.

point to a paragraph in the dotcommunist manifesto which says capitalism
is good:
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html

you are not as pragmatic as you make yourself out to be. anarchism is a
waste of time.

Vic



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