Yes, it was Rousseau's Social Contract, and the paraphrase is wrong. Its everyone gives up individual rights, and in return gains every one of those rights back from the community, but as community rights. In a nutshell I = You = We and hurting you hurts me, because we're all members of the community. It also has to do with the General Will, which is the notion that we all agree on the same society/community and so we all have the same will for the society community. Very GNU like, actually. But of course no one will see this post cuase its nested deep and a reply to a reply:)
Well, the superiority of GPL depends on the politics of the interpreter. If you are a person who thinks that the merits of Free Software (or Open Source, to be more encompasing), being that the quality of an application is increased by numerous developers working on it and that it is in fact a RIGHT (as RMS would say) that people can change the software and use it however they want, the fact that GPL ensures that makes it supperior. If your a company that feels the need to protect your "secrets" with closed source, then obviously the GPL is not superior to anything. If you extend an open source application w/ closed source code, you are protecting your secrets. But your also being a little selfish. Not to condescend, but the question "What makes it superior" is entirely subjective, and its really impossible to have an acceptable answer to the question, without a mini-flame ware.
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Yes, it was Rousseau's Social Contract, and the paraphrase is wrong. Its everyone gives up individual rights, and in return gains every one of those rights back from the community, but as community rights. In a nutshell I = You = We and hurting you hurts me, because we're all members of the community. It also has to do with the General Will, which is the notion that we all agree on the same society/community and so we all have the same will for the society community. Very GNU like, actually. But of course no one will see this post cuase its nested deep and a reply to a reply :)
Well, the superiority of GPL depends on the politics of the interpreter. If you are a person who thinks that the merits of Free Software (or Open Source, to be more encompasing), being that the quality of an application is increased by numerous developers working on it and that it is in fact a RIGHT (as RMS would say) that people can change the software and use it however they want, the fact that GPL ensures that makes it supperior. If your a company that feels the need to protect your "secrets" with closed source, then obviously the GPL is not superior to anything. If you extend an open source application w/ closed source code, you are protecting your secrets. But your also being a little selfish. Not to condescend, but the question "What makes it superior" is entirely subjective, and its really impossible to have an acceptable answer to the question, without a mini-flame ware.
for LAN, implement fast ground birds, like roadrunners, or perhaps emus (those things are frickin' fast!)?