Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Jedi Tek'Unum" <jeditekunum@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:dd0af6d6-f6bb-4330-bbf9-b888108df90b@googlegroups.com...

>GPL violators are common but nowhere else is an entire language held 
>hostage.

Bull. The GPL (and free software in general) have destroyed the professional 
software market by devaluing it. (What's less valued than free?). Instead of 
having a vibrant array of choices in both programming languages and 
implementations thereof, you really only have one choice for each (dressed 
up in different packages, but the same thing underlying).

Plenty of other professional languages "are held hostage", because they 
don't even exist (at least in any usable form). There is no way to get them 
built, because there is no hope of making any money on them. All one gets is 
hobby languages built to support trial-and-error (emphasis on the "error") 
program creation. Nothing remotely professional about that.

We'll be lucky if trial-and-error software development doesn't quickly lead 
to the destruction of civilation. All it would take is one uncontrollable 
program that takes over the Internet, or power generation, or water 
supplies, or ...

So one could say that Free Software most likely will lead directly to the 
destruction of human civilization. :-)

                                   Randy.