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From: | Andrew Halliwell |
Subject: | Re: [!NEWS] The GNUtards Must Be Crazy |
Date: | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:36:36 +0000 |
User-agent: | tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.24-24-generic (i686)) |
JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote: >> The renumeration they demand is contractual control of other's >> exclusive copyrights -- which is clearly illegal. Only in Stallman's > > You don't get the priveledge of creating derivative works off > of other's property. The GPL is by no means unique in this regard. > > The FSF is no more "communist" in this respect than Microsoft or IBM. Or J.K. Rowling for that matter. The harry potter lexicon for example. It was a derivative work and the author objected to it. Took it to court and won. -- | spike1@freenet.co.uk | | | Andrew Halliwell BSc | "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
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