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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,577ecbb6c5a53a1f X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.75.39 with SMTP id z7mr2923374pav.26.1349499127217; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: g9ni27271pbh.1!nntp.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Forking old GMGPL libs ? References: <5de9a47c-6594-4653-a083-38f90312e70e@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:52:03 -0400 Message-ID: <85ehlcgq30.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v6a8q+AlzZ9/XkOZjxk7EU9j+50= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 05688506fb8f7e029e66104679 X-Received-Bytes: 1721 Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2012-10-06T00:52:03-04:00 List-Id: Patrick writes: > I want it to be free-as-in-beer forever as well as well as open > sourced. The FSF is against this. If you search on Ebay for basically > any large FLOSS application, like Gimp for instance, you will find > them being sold to people who already have internet connections > (because they can bid)but again not a problem to the FSF that people > are being charged $20 + shipping for Gimp, even though they could > download it for free if they understood the situation. It's > exploitation of people who don't understand whats available. You can't fix ignorance thru a license, only thru education. In this case you need better marketing of your free version. You also can't fix bad people (exploiters) thru a license. Again, one solution is to do a better job of marketing than they do. Of course, marketing costs money, which is one reason the people that are charging money for free software packages do so; it pays for the marketing. TANSTAAFL. -- -- Stephe