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Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:30:09 -0500
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Alexander Terekhov wrote:
http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/prophet.shtml#Jihad

It's particularly telling that the article goes on to list the
Microsoft 24 concern-troll questions about the GPL. Those are
all written with the aim of frightening developers who want to
deprive users of the four freedoms away from the GPL. That's
fine. Developers who want to deprive users of the four freedoms
really should be scared of the GPL.

Again, the GPL is not for developers. It's for users. Developers
who don't want their users to have the four freedoms are invited
to stay away from the GPL.

The positive economic side of the GPL is that software is paid
for by those people who need it immediately. Once the software
exists, it can be shared with everybody - the ones who paid for
it originally having the benefit of getting exactly what they
need. In this way, a body of free software is built up which
benefits everybody.


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