Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Saturday 01 March 2008 04:24 : \____
>
>> 7 wrote:
>>
>>> I think the key here is not to mix up GPL and anti-drm. A separate
>>> anti-drm license extension should be produced for certain projects
>>> that are key to targeting drm related violators of free software. It
>>> would only apply to certain key projects like codecs for example so
>>> that free software developers can use them on projects with higher
>>> than usual risks of violators being attracted to it like a magnet.
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.
>>
>> The problem is that the kind of people who abuse Free Software are not,
>> neither are those who evangelise Intellectual Monopoly.
>>
>> The fact is that /all/ software, Free or otherwise, is "high risk",
>> given the predatory nature of certain companies.
>
> They sometimes blame the investors' needs. Just the other day, Sun knocked down
> MySQL's anti0swpatents page and Simon Phipps blamed investors' needs. Shame
> Sun for that one.
> #
> -1.
>
Umm, perhaps it's time to start moving to postgres.
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