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| From: | Hyman Rosen |
| Subject: | Re: Eric Raymond: We don't need the GPL |
| Date: | Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:07:50 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Rjack wrote:
"The question I found myself asking is: if the market punished people for taking open source closed, then why do our licenses need to punish people for taking open source closed?
The speaker is being disingenuous. Whatever effects the market has, they are long-term and imprecise. Free software licenses which prevent others from denying users freedom exist in order to make sure that users are not denied their freedom in every instance and right now.
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