Re: Big blow to proprietary linking nonsense.

[amicus_curious]

"RJack" <user@example.net> wrote in message 
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> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
> > Remember, the purpose of the GPL is to provide freedom for users of 
> > software. That's why users are permitted to do all of this without 
> > restriction. But in order to provide freedom for all users, once someone 
> > wants to convey a covered work, they must do so under the terms of the 
> > GPL, so that the recipients can share in the same freedom.
>
> Remember. . . LMAO.
>
> Anything Richard Stallman dreams up, including the claim that "a
> copyright license is not a contract" is in your credo. Good luck.
I think that was Moglen who came up with that.  Stallman is not so astute.

Stallman is a odd duck with an odd appearance and a even odder mantra.  For 
years he shamelessly used the banner of MIT to hide his mere Harvard 
undergraduate qualifications.  He is a technician run amok and is no true 
son of MIT.  He is a charlatan to the core and parades his silly image in 
front of wannabe dweebs who confuse such shenanigans with technical 
urbanity.  Linux, Apache, PHP, and even MySQL have a legitimate place in the 
world as public domain, generic solutions to many IT needs, but the sideshow 
of the GPL and Stallman's musings do not.