I think that good/ethical and business are contradicting adjectives and cannot exist together. Probably wrong, but in any case it's no use arguing with me on that front.
I didn't make my problem with business clear. Business's ultimate goal is to make money. In my view, things of real value get hurt in that process.
Not so. In fact, by stamping the GPL onto their code, they have forfeited any hope of compensation for their efforts. They have done so by reducing the market value of their work to zero (users will not pay for the functionality, because they can obtain it for free) and eliminating any opportunity to do parallel commercial licensing. (They don't own changes introduced by others, and so cannot license the latest version for money.)
This is a perfect example of the business man's inability to grasp concepts foreign to him. You need to spend far less time arguing and pointing out what you see as faults, and far more time reading, and trying to really understand us. Here's a few hints. Compensation does *not* have to mean money We restrict our code with the gpl so that large companies can't take it, market it and sell it under proprietary terms, to make money at the world's expense. This is our compensation, the knowledge that our creations will never be ripped off by some company for their money-making purposes. We resent this activity, yes. Sue us.
Most of everything else you say is just a difference in perspective, not right or wrong. You say that this lawsuit discussion is a bad thing though, and we freely admit that, it's a mistake. These things happen when people have the values that we have, not when people use the licenses that uphold these values.
Most of the corporately braindead things you spew are not easy to unconvince you of, but I will say this. I, at least, do not agree with the ideals of business. It's selfish, profiteering and soulless. I suspect that alot of other GPL supporters feel the say way. not sure though.
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I didn't read that, but I am still moved to comment. How did you take such issue with a 2 line comment that u wrote this 700 word dissertation on it?
is this judge as big a corporatist asshole as he sounds?
Haha. You people really know ur shit. I love the amount of buffy & SMG references here :P :D
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if this article doesn't tell you otherwise, you are 100% unreasonable
... he just considers you too much of a lost cause to try and convince you of his view.
what is wrong with zealots and revolutionaries??!?!?!?!?!?! Bad current pratices can't be changed without them
I didn't make my problem with business clear. Business's ultimate goal is to make money. In my view, things of real value get hurt in that process.
This is a perfect example of the business man's inability to grasp concepts foreign to him. You need to spend far less time arguing and pointing out what you see as faults, and far more time reading, and trying to really understand us. Here's a few hints. Compensation does *not* have to mean money We restrict our code with the gpl so that large companies can't take it, market it and sell it under proprietary terms, to make money at the world's expense. This is our compensation, the knowledge that our creations will never be ripped off by some company for their money-making purposes. We resent this activity, yes. Sue us.
Most of everything else you say is just a difference in perspective, not right or wrong. You say that this lawsuit discussion is a bad thing though, and we freely admit that, it's a mistake. These things happen when people have the values that we have, not when people use the licenses that uphold these values.
Most of the corporately braindead things you spew are not easy to unconvince you of, but I will say this. I, at least, do not agree with the ideals of business. It's selfish, profiteering and soulless. I suspect that alot of other GPL supporters feel the say way. not sure though.