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Nick Moffitt Interview

Posted by michael on from the give-the-monkey-another-hit dept.

Swedish hacker-wannabee writes "Nick Moffitt is in an interesting interview at Gnuheter. Moffitt: 'I want to see a future where when I buy something, I own it. I don't want corporations and governments telling me how I may or may not use my own private property in my own home or among my friends. I want the ability to take apart my toaster or my alarm clock and see how they work, or combine them into something new. I don't think this future is possible without some serious effort on the part of hackers.'"

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  1. Re:What does this really mean? by schon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    the Open Source community depends on a number of licenses that completely prevents this

    Ahem, proof please? This is complete bullshit.

    If I actually buy a copy of Linux I can tear it apart and modify it, but I don't have the rights to simply resell my new creation.

    Again, bullshit. What you are describing (selling a modified Linux distro) has been done by at least 3 different companies; Mandrake, Suse, and Corel are all forks of different distros.

    Do I want other people tearing apart my work and distributing the new creations as theirs?

    Huh? WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?

    Nobody is going to tear apart your work, because it's NOT yours. The work belongs to the people who wrote the code, you know, the copy of linux that you actually bought

    Nobody is forcing you to do anything you don't want to do. If you don't want to GPL your products, then simply don't use other people's GPL'ed code. Write your own.

    I can't believe how such an obvious troll got modded up.