First, you must understand that GPL was the first license to guarantee that a free software program remains free software after the act of distribution. The use of BSD stack in Windows and the existence of several proprietary versions of X and Apache are just some examples of freedom lost by users because of the license used. Having this in mind the phrase:
"If you want to make sure that your free program is legal you should use a license that is compatible with the GPL"
doesn't seem so unreasonable, does it ? If the first, and for some time, the only license that guarantees that users will have freedom to use, adapt, copy and redistribute, any free software license should be compatible with it, right ?
Personally I think that RMS should revise the GPL instead of trying to get the whole world to use it.
Here's an interesting point of view: if you believe in something (in this case free software) and dedicate your life to advocating that something, but the world isn't using right now, you should simply quit, be a buddy and give up all your work as others would like it, not as you which.
Stallman's work is in advocating the GPL. Do you really believe it's reasonable for him to simply loose his principles for the comfort of others who don't believe in the same things ?
In Portugal the bar association has appeared in the last year as critic to the government in fields like justice and education. Is this normal in other countries ?
After 2 years of business formation I can say I recomend it for any engineer that is thinking of going to a management place. Understanding business and what is behind some decisions which we believe to be completly "dilbertesque" was an experience that was very rewarding for me.
I was very lucky, because the teacher I worked with has very good connections with some great companies, so I was able to apply a lot of what I've learned right away in some real companies.
Warning: The most difficult part to me, as an engineer, to accept were those "simplistic" and qualitative models (Porter's competitive forces is a good example). I've also been told that this barrier is common to most technically oriented people, so know what you want, because your first times will be rough and will make you put aside most of the notions you know (problem is one of the notions you'll change). Choose very carefully the people/school you'll be on. Engineers always want to check how things work in practice, so make sure the school has a good contact network.
Maybe. EU is trying it with privacy laws.
There's a European Council Directive on privacy that's been already passed to most EU countries laws that says that if any company (A) to which I pass my data, passes my data to another company (B), then A must make sure that B follows, at least, the same privacy laws A is obliged to follow.
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I believe the python license is GPL compatible when I read from the Free Software Foundation. Not before.
"If you want to make sure that your free program is legal you should use a license that is compatible with the GPL"
doesn't seem so unreasonable, does it ? If the first, and for some time, the only license that guarantees that users will have freedom to use, adapt, copy and redistribute, any free software license should be compatible with it, right ?
Personally I think that RMS should revise the GPL instead of trying to get the whole world to use it.
Here's an interesting point of view: if you believe in something (in this case free software) and dedicate your life to advocating that something, but the world isn't using right now, you should simply quit, be a buddy and give up all your work as others would like it, not as you which.
Stallman's work is in advocating the GPL. Do you really believe it's reasonable for him to simply loose his principles for the comfort of others who don't believe in the same things ?
In Portugal the bar association has appeared in the last year as critic to the government in fields like justice and education. Is this normal in other countries ?
I was very lucky, because the teacher I worked with has very good connections with some great companies, so I was able to apply a lot of what I've learned right away in some real companies.
Warning: The most difficult part to me, as an engineer, to accept were those "simplistic" and qualitative models (Porter's competitive forces is a good example). I've also been told that this barrier is common to most technically oriented people, so know what you want, because your first times will be rough and will make you put aside most of the notions you know (problem is one of the notions you'll change). Choose very carefully the people/school you'll be on. Engineers always want to check how things work in practice, so make sure the school has a good contact network.
Maybe. EU is trying it with privacy laws. There's a European Council Directive on privacy that's been already passed to most EU countries laws that says that if any company (A) to which I pass my data, passes my data to another company (B), then A must make sure that B follows, at least, the same privacy laws A is obliged to follow.