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Re: GPL traitor !


From: JEDIDIAH
Subject: Re: GPL traitor !
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:07:33 -0500
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On 2009-04-30, Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> On 2009-04-30, DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> wrote:
>>> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>> In gnu.misc.discuss Doctor Smith
>>>> <iaintgotnostinkinemail@ols.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:45:12 +0000 (UTC), Alan Mackenzie
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> It seems Matt has long misunderstood the GPL.
>>>>> Like 99 percent of people who through some unfortunate
>>>>> process come in contact with it.
>>>> I wouldn't know, since I don't know any such people.  I know
>>>> lots of people whose contact with the GPL is benign, rewarding
>>>> and profitable.
>>> GPL and profitable in the same sentence?  You funny guy!
>> 
>> The problem here is that you are fixating on the idea that you 
>> somehow are or might some day be the Robber Baron. It's like you 
>> fancy yourself the hero in Atlas Shrugged. Although you are rather 
>> more like the disposable foreign labor that would be employed by 
>> such a "hero".
>> 
>> As with any creative work: far more benefit goes to those that use
>> the work than those that seek to make themselves rich by
>> controlling access to it. Few people are Robber Barons and most
>> people are just passengers.
>> 
>> You are just a noisy poser. You don't have to ever worry about the
>> prospects of making money with any sort of licensing scheme.
>> 
>
> Brilliant mind JEDIDIAH. Are folks still ending up dead down Texas way
> if they disagree with you?

     No, they don't shoot you for bad rhetoric in Texas.

>
> Sincerely,
> Rjack :)
>
>


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