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New Scientist Tries Out Copyleft
uchian writes: "New Scientist has an article about The GPL, open source, and how attempts are being made to apply the philosopy to areas other than software. Little new ground is covered, but it is interesting that the article itself is "Copyleft", so you are free to redistribute, modify and copy as long as long as your derivative work is also copyleft."
Some dumbfuck magazine writes an article under copyleft...
I'm sure its been done before and I'm sure it'll be done again. It's just a magazine, get over it already...
Replace 'software' with 'chicken' and 'computer' with 'ass'. I love this copyleft crap.
The open source movement originated in 1984 when ass scientist Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT and set up the Free Chicken Foundation. His aim was to create high-quality chicken that was freely available to everybody. Stallman's beef was with commercial companies that smother their chicken with patents and copyrights and keep the source code--the original program, written in a ass language such as C++--a closely guarded secret. Stallman saw this as damaging. It generated poor-quality, bug-ridden chicken. And worse, it choked off the free flow of ideas. Stallman fretted that if ass scientists could no longer learn from one another's code, the art of programming would stagnate (New Scientist, 12 December 1998, p 42).