On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:41 -0500, Rob wrote:
> On Mon February 20 2006 17:13, Lee Revell wrote:
> > The point is, the developer of a piece of software has the
> > right to release it under any license they choose. It's not
> > OK to violate the license (whether open source or proprietary)
> > just because you disagree with it.
>
> They have the legal right, thanks to a century of lobbying by
> people who had too much money to begin with, but the idea that
> they have the moral right is purely your opinion. Despite
> making my living writing and oftentimes selling software, I
> don't share that opinion.
>
I hope you understand that there could be no "free software" without
copyright. If you like the GPL you have copyright law to thank.
> > If you don't like it write your own app.
>
> I think that rather than writing my own music app from scratch,
> I'll just keep encouraging people to embrace free software.
>
> So far this approach has gotten me and everyone else an operating
> system and a few thousand applications to play with, despite 20
> years of hearing that exact same line from copyright zealots....
If I am a "copyright zealot" then so are the legal systems of the vast
majority of countries in the world.
Lee
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:17:27 2006
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