____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 18 December 2007 15:48 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
>>
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>>| So what can we conclude from all this? Both license models make software
>>| free, but only GPL software is sustainably free. The BSD gives greater
>>| freedom, the GPL gives more freedom. Choose which one you value more.
>> `----
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>>
http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2007/12/15/gpl-vs-bsd-a-matter-of-sustainability/
>
> This is a debate which we've had here over and over. The microsoft
> shilcosystem likes to call BSD more "free" because it allows people to
> make it unfree.
>
> To me, that appears to be a significant logical fallacy.
Microsoft loves BSD. It only knows the notion of "take", not "give".
Additionally, when Microsoft starts listening to its end users (not customers,
i.e. OEMs, MPAA, NSA...), then -- and /only/ then -- will it have
some /ethics/ that are needed make it /give/.
Scott M. Fulton, III:
"Microsoft's distorted perception of the computing industry, and of the
world as a whole, is important because of a fact which Judge Jackson
came to realize but, all too soon, commented on: Any conduct remedy
which relies solely upon Microsoft's own ability to scrutinize,
admonish, and improve itself through its own means, will be treated by
Microsoft's executives with disrespect and contempt. It's like a
parent ordering his wayward son to shape up. The executives of
Microsoft are as unwilling to consider such an order as an adolescent
boy, bottled up in his room, is willing to remove his headphones and
listen to his dad for five seconds. They are likely to ignore such an
order altogether. I say this with the utmost respect: They don't give
a damn what you think."
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