From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9a5f3bd162009c01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Chad R. Meiners" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? Date: 23 Sep 2005 14:31:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1127511077.919641.107390@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> <87hdcew7wq.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 35.11.49.186 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1127511083 23187 127.0.0.1 (23 Sep 2005 21:31:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:31:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87hdcew7wq.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=35.11.49.186; posting-account=paoWPg0AAABe-C1bfTlsEbfoc5yNqKFn Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5072 Date: 2005-09-23T14:31:17-07:00 List-Id: I'd find it difficult to sympathise with "greedy proprietary capitalists <\quote> What's the difference between greedy proprietary capitalists and greedy ideologists? I've watched Stallman get angry with a crowd of two hundred academics when someone ask him about the viral nature of the GPL. He said that calling the GPL "viral" is flat out wrong. He demonstrated that he wants us to reform our minds around his so that the GPL is immune to criticism. The greedy proprietary capitalist wants our money. The greedy ideologist wants our soul. I've watched Stallman speak. He is either a liar or delusional about the nature of the GPL. I use to be a strong supporter of the GPL, but when I heard Stallman speak, I thought, "This man is nuts!". He wants us to give up the right to decide how we are to be compensated for our labor with respect to software. The GMGPL isn't about being greedy. It is about having the freedom to choose your method of compensation as oppose to having Stallman dictate your rights to you. -CRM P.S. In general, I support free software; however, I disagree with trying to force people to release free software. This in my opinion is not "free software". If we the users are not allow the copyright rights over works that we created by using the so called "free software" to write and compile, the users aren't really free are they?