"amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
"Ben Pfaff" <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote in message
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"amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
No one takes apart complex applications in order to change
them, there is no value in having all those restrictions as
posed by the GPL.
What a bizarre, incorrect claim! I spend a lot of time taking
apart complex applications in order to change them. The Linux
kernel is one example of a complex application that I spend a lot
of time hacking.
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Perhaps you do, but the other 10,000 people nearest you do not.
The half-a-dozen people who sit nearest to me at my office can,
and sometimes do.
My point is that your assertion that "no one" does these things
is egregiously ill-informed, and I think that I have made that
point.
Are you one of the kernel developers? It is hard to interpret
the Google information around your name.
I doubt any of the kernel developers would recognize my name.
I've made a few small kernel contributions, but none recently.
I've been doing a lot of Linux kernel work in at the office.
We haven't yet tried to contribute it upstream. Perhaps later
this year.
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