I would liken this to a lawn mowing service sueing Joe Sixpack for being a good guy and mowing his elderly neighbor's lawn for free. Wallace seems to be making the case that the availability of free software prevents him from getting a job and he's placed the GPL at the head of it. AFAIK you can charge for GPL'd code, right? To me, this is the very spirit of competition, same for municipal WiFi efforts. These efforts foster a commercial environment where competing means more than price. Wallace should be spending his time thinking about what he can offer that free software can't or simply find a new line of work. If you can't stand the heat, shut your pie hole and get off my lawn!
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I would liken this to a lawn mowing service sueing Joe Sixpack for being a good guy and mowing his elderly neighbor's lawn for free. Wallace seems to be making the case that the availability of free software prevents him from getting a job and he's placed the GPL at the head of it. AFAIK you can charge for GPL'd code, right? To me, this is the very spirit of competition, same for municipal WiFi efforts. These efforts foster a commercial environment where competing means more than price. Wallace should be spending his time thinking about what he can offer that free software can't or simply find a new line of work. If you can't stand the heat, shut your pie hole and get off my lawn!