Maybe fits your definition of communism. And, Stallman is always Stallman.
But communism is based on the industrialization and class the sepertation it caused. Code is no physical good, it can be replicated for free and so other ruled have to be applied. GNU uses one ruleset, and IMO it should keep it, something better may always come up, but little is used as long as GNU software.
Maybe fits your definition of communism. And, Stallman is always Stallman.
But communism is based on the industrialization and class the sepertation it caused. Code is no physical good, it can be replicated for free and so other ruled have to be applied. GNU uses one ruleset, and IMO it should keep it, something better may always come up, but little is used as long as GNU software.
I much prefer BSD. GPL is like communism for code.
Here's a pretty lengthy article on it: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/
There's some others I've forgotten about. Took me a while to swallow the pill.
I much prefer BSD. GPL is like communism for code.
Here's a pretty lengthy article on it: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/
There's some others I've forgotten about. Took me a while to swallow the pill.
I understand both viewpoints. When I get to choose, I choose the one more appropriate for the project.
I understand both viewpoints. When I get to choose, I choose the one more appropriate for the project.
(post is archived)