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6 Reasons To License Software Under the (A/L)GPL
Henry V .009 writes with a link to Zed Shaw's "newest rant," which gives a cogent description of his reasons for choosing the not-always-popular GPL for his own code: "Honestly, how many of you people who use open source tell your boss what you're using? How many of you tell investors that your entire operation is based on something one guy wrote in a few months? How many of you out there go to management and say, 'Hey, you know there's this guy Zed who wrote the software I'm using, why don't we hire him as a consultant?' You don't. None of you. You take the software, and use it like Excalibur to slay your dragon and then take the credit for it. You don't give out any credit, and in fact, I've ran into a vast majority of you who constantly try to say that I can't code as a way of covering your ass."
I can't code is my excuse! Don't go messing that up for me! I have a good thing going.
Just because you are wrong and I called you out on it doesn't mean I am a Troll.
Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
Oh God! I hate whining bastards! They just WHINE WHINE WHINE!
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Dual licensing is like dual booting or being bisexual. If you look at dual license (open/closed) projects, every on uses the GPL as a tool to encourage closed source usage. I don't know about you, but I'll stick with the vagina, thanks.
Yeah just cos you don't know him, he can't be important.
Perhaps it's the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory at work.
He also seems nice on IRC. He's basically a poseur.
But there really is a difference between meeting someone for a few hours and working with him every day.
>Tech types that think they are god and this means that they shouldn't have to be nice to anyone.
You should interact with doctors for a few years. You won't think tech nerds are socially inept or arrogant ever again.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Editors. When you see something so blatant, please use [sic] after it so people will know it's not you doing the mangling the English language.[sic]
it's not you doing the mangling of the English language.
There, I fixed it for you.
We need a "+1 -- nice sig" moderation.