Someone else uses that code, and is able to implement it in a commercial application, and they can make money selling it. How has that harmed you?
Because I can't incorporate those new ideas back into my project and make it better. If someone is going to improve my project, or use it in a way that I didn't originally think to, I want to know what and how they did it. It could make my project, and my future projects, better. Plus I don't like people taking my ideas and capitalizing off of them. Why should my ideas, which I intended to be free, create profit for someone else? They should stay free and open, like I originally intended.
Kind of the same idea...have you ever worked on a group project and busted your ass while your partner(s) sit around and make pointless comments, and then they get the same grade/credit as you? Is that fair? If I'm going to share, I want due credit and I want the people I share with to share with me.
Yeah, but the GPL ensures that any improvements made to the code stay open. If microsoft could take code open source code and use it as they see fit, then sell it with windows, that would suck. The GPL prevents this.
regardless, I still think the book should be free (as in free beer) downloadable. Yeah, you have to cover costs of publishing, I understand you should pay for the paper book, but stallman should let people read it for no cost.
Does anyone else find it humorous that you have to pay $25 for a book about free software, by the man who's whole life has been dedicated to free software? Shouldn't this book be available for a free download? Maybe Stallman will submit this as an e-text to Project Gutenberg.... Now that would be a total commitment!
And let's not forget that microsoft changes their interface all the time too. Remember DOS? Windows 3.x? And then 95? Then XP? It's not uncommon for an OS to change their look and feel every couple of years. I use CDE on suns for academic purposes, and I only hope I still have access to sun boxes when Gnome becomes standard.
Here at the UIUC a group called Physics Van always puts a chunk of dry ice in a 2-liter bottle with a little water. Then then put that in a big plastic trash can. When the CO2 causes the 2-litre bottle to pop, the trash can lid goes flying in the air. Always a croud pleaser!
I don't know about you guys, but I think a 3d desktop would be bad-ass. When program windows are stacked on top of one another, the ones in the background shrink a little and and fall away into the distance. Your foreground app would be up front, and everything else would just shrink towards the horizon.... I'd love to see that!
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Someone else uses that code, and is able to implement it in a commercial application, and they can make money selling it. How has that harmed you?
Because I can't incorporate those new ideas back into my project and make it better. If someone is going to improve my project, or use it in a way that I didn't originally think to, I want to know what and how they did it. It could make my project, and my future projects, better. Plus I don't like people taking my ideas and capitalizing off of them. Why should my ideas, which I intended to be free, create profit for someone else? They should stay free and open, like I originally intended.
Kind of the same idea...have you ever worked on a group project and busted your ass while your partner(s) sit around and make pointless comments, and then they get the same grade/credit as you? Is that fair? If I'm going to share, I want due credit and I want the people I share with to share with me.
Yeah, but the GPL ensures that any improvements made to the code stay open. If microsoft could take code open source code and use it as they see fit, then sell it with windows, that would suck. The GPL prevents this.
regardless, I still think the book should be free (as in free beer) downloadable. Yeah, you have to cover costs of publishing, I understand you should pay for the paper book, but stallman should let people read it for no cost.
Does anyone else find it humorous that you have to pay $25 for a book about free software, by the man who's whole life has been dedicated to free software? Shouldn't this book be available for a free download? Maybe Stallman will submit this as an e-text to Project Gutenberg.... Now that would be a total commitment!
And let's not forget that microsoft changes their interface all the time too. Remember DOS? Windows 3.x? And then 95? Then XP? It's not uncommon for an OS to change their look and feel every couple of years. I use CDE on suns for academic purposes, and I only hope I still have access to sun boxes when Gnome becomes standard.
Here at the UIUC a group called Physics Van always puts a chunk of dry ice in a 2-liter bottle with a little water. Then then put that in a big plastic trash can. When the CO2 causes the 2-litre bottle to pop, the trash can lid goes flying in the air. Always a croud pleaser!
I don't know about you guys, but I think a 3d desktop would be bad-ass. When program windows are stacked on top of one another, the ones in the background shrink a little and and fall away into the distance. Your foreground app would be up front, and everything else would just shrink towards the horizon.... I'd love to see that!