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From: | Hadron |
Subject: | Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy |
Date: | Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:51:28 +0100 |
User-agent: | GNU Emacs 23.0.60.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-11-19 on Linux development 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP |
Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes: > Hadron wrote: >> It's a problem with real people in the real world. > > What is the antecedent of your "it"? > >> Freeloaders, thieves and general scroungers will indeed take advantage. >> It's why the most used commercial SW projects in the world do not give >> out their source codes as a general rule. If they did their hard work >> would be distributed and cloned > > It is the purpose of the FSF to insure that code should be > distributed and cloned. It is also the purpose of the FSF > that no one be prevented from distributing and cloning code. > GPLed code is meant to be taken advantage of. Err, so what? How will the FSF stop freeloaders stealing the code and giving nothing back? Duh.
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