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!g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Chad R. Meiners" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? Date: 24 Sep 2005 14:35:01 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1127597701.660962.244990@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> <87hdcew7wq.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1127511077.919641.107390@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 35.11.49.186 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1127597707 23717 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2005 21:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:35:07 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: 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: g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=35.11.49.186; posting-account=paoWPg0AAABe-C1bfTlsEbfoc5yNqKFn Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5115 Date: 2005-09-24T14:35:01-07:00 List-Id: >>From Brian May Just because you dislike Stallman isn't really a good reason to dislike the GPL IMHO. <\quote> I never said that I dislike Stallman. I watched and listened to him during a talk, and I watched him get really irate towards anyone that called the GPL viral. He made it quite clear clear during his talk that he wants us to 1.) never call the GPL viral. 2.) never ever sell software. He also thinks that a public trust fund is sufficient to support all software development. This in my view qualified him for the "nuts" category; I don't dislike him; I think some of his ideas are wrong, and since he refuses to discuss his views in a reasonable manner, he is nuts. The GPL has its uses. I don't have an axe to grind with Stallman or the GPL. My comment was to the "greedy capitalists" statement. "Greedy capitalists" want money. However, Stallman is an example of someone that wants to set public policy to favor his own ideals as oppose to the public good. Forcing your ideals upon others is also greedy. Stallman is just as greedy as those greedy capitalist. That's my point. That being said the GPL can be used in non-greedy ways. Just as a capitalistic business can be run in a non-greedy manner. -CRM