I'm really sick and tired of people stating that the whole basis of a monopoly is the fact that people are stupid and don't understand anything. I mean if people are stupid enough not to understand the facts of life, and the fact that they have the choice, why is that the governement must protect people from their own stupidity? Isn't that what people are complaining about in censorship? The government telling us what is right and wrong wrong? Right? But then suddenly it's OK for the governement to tell us that Microsoft is a monopoly because that's cool? I personally think that is stupid and that's a huge reason why the OSS and so-called "Free Software" community is not taken seriously. Because we have flexible morals.
Also, how the hell is the GPL free? It isn't at all. Truly "free", in my humnle opinion, and I believe in most laymen, is that "free" means that we can do whatever the fuck we want with this "free" thing. But the GPL says that we can't. We can only do whatever we want as long as we reason the source. That isn't free. Free is that I can do whatever I want and release it under whatever license I want after or whatever the fuck I want... as long as I give credit. I guess truly free would be public domain. And I'm willing to release software under that, because who cares about credit? It's only an ego thing. Free Software should be free, not Comrade Stallman free, but free as in I can do whatever I want with this, and NOT what Comrade Stallman permits me.
You think that RMS would EVER argue that GPL == Open Source? Have you ever read an RMS conversation? Like that one with that Crystal Space developer? I wanted to punch RMS! But anyhow, the point is that RMS would definately never ever argue GPL == Open Source.
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I'm really sick and tired of people stating that the whole basis of a monopoly is the fact that people are stupid and don't understand anything. I mean if people are stupid enough not to understand the facts of life, and the fact that they have the choice, why is that the governement must protect people from their own stupidity? Isn't that what people are complaining about in censorship? The government telling us what is right and wrong wrong? Right? But then suddenly it's OK for the governement to tell us that Microsoft is a monopoly because that's cool? I personally think that is stupid and that's a huge reason why the OSS and so-called "Free Software" community is not taken seriously. Because we have flexible morals.
Also, how the hell is the GPL free? It isn't at all. Truly "free", in my humnle opinion, and I believe in most laymen, is that "free" means that we can do whatever the fuck we want with this "free" thing. But the GPL says that we can't. We can only do whatever we want as long as we reason the source. That isn't free. Free is that I can do whatever I want and release it under whatever license I want after or whatever the fuck I want... as long as I give credit. I guess truly free would be public domain. And I'm willing to release software under that, because who cares about credit? It's only an ego thing. Free Software should be free, not Comrade Stallman free, but free as in I can do whatever I want with this, and NOT what Comrade Stallman permits me.
You think that RMS would EVER argue that GPL == Open Source? Have you ever read an RMS conversation? Like that one with that Crystal Space developer? I wanted to punch RMS! But anyhow, the point is that RMS would definately never ever argue GPL == Open Source.
And everytime someone always posts this exact same post predicting that people are going to claim patents on air, etc...