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Re: Anyone familiar with "aspforums"?

Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with "aspforums"?
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:17:48 -0300


Brad Jensen wrote:

puff -at- guild -dot- net wrote:

Brad Jensen writes:

Free software is a myth. Someone is paying for it.

Bzzt! Wrong. Thanks for playing.


Someone is paying for it.

I'm not sure why you're suddenly reviving this thread, but most of what you say is based on a misunderstanding.

The "free" in "free software" has nothing to do with the cost to develop the software, nor even the price that it's sold at. The freedom referred to is the freedom to receive and modify the source code.

For more background, I suggest you look at:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Note that this link referrs only to the most popular free software license; there are variations.


It is not really free. As long as there are conditions on the
use, it is LESS free than commercial software.
You can't be serious. Yes, free software imposes condtions on how it is used. But proprietary software imposes far more.

Eben Moglen, the lawyer who wrote the GNU General Public License, states that the main reason that the license has stood up so well is that it gives far more rights than it restricts, and that law in modern industrial companies is more likely to uphold a license that grants rights than one that restricts them.

The noble libertarians of
'free' software are actually the proponents of their own cybernetic animal farm.
Actually, Eben Moglen says that the movement is syndical-anarchistic.

Your rhetoric aside, it's very common under law to make sure that an agreement or law can't be used to undermine itself. For example, many countries whose laws include some right to freedom of speech also outlaw hate crimes, on the grounds that they tend to destroy freedom of speech of others. It's not really too surprising.

Anybody running a major-sized commercial enterprise on top of 'free' software products, is sitting on a ticking time bomb.
Then there's a lot of time bombs out there, including Merill Lynch.

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