Re: gpl licensing

[rjack]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> You must be confusing this group with some other group.  Free 
> software isn't a economic model.  The GPL is a copyright license, 
> that protects users freedom to run, study, improve and distribute 
> software, and has nothing to do with Communism/Capitalism, free 
> software and any kind of freedom can happily coexist with both those 
> models, which ever you wish to prefer.

> Free software isn't a economic model. . . and has nothing to do with 
> Communism/Capitalism, free software and any kind of freedom can 
> happily coexist with both those models, which ever you wish to 
> prefer.


"I'm the general counsel of the Free Software Foundation, and I'm trying
to report on the revolution which is destroying intellectual property.
Of which I am entirely in favour."
http://ciaran.compsoc.com/texts/eben-moglen-dmca-and-you.html

How the hell do you get "can happily coexist" and "destroying
intellectual property" to logically fit together?

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck. . .

It's an economic model that hopes to destroy capitalistic notions of
intellectual property.