No just against GPLv3 [LWN.net]

No just against GPLv3

Posted Jan 27, 2006 16:35 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet)

Actually, the story is very anti-GPL in general. It doesn't just trash GPLv3, it trashes the whole idea of free software. From the story:

Either way, I can see why gardeners, employees at Wal-Mart, and professional athletes might think it's great to get free (as in cost) code. Heck, I'd like free hamburgers, free cars, and the latest novels from modern writers for free, too. But why are DEVELOPERS, the people who MAKE THEIR LIVING from this stuff, supposed to welcome the erosion of value in their industry?

OK, if so, why does the author cares about GPLv3 so much? Didn't free software developers get extinct like dinosaurs?

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No just against GPLv3

Posted Jan 27, 2006 17:20 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Umm... how exactly does free software "erode value"? It seems to me that having the source code would make the value of a package much greater to a lot of people. Oh, you mean people couldn't sit back and make lots of unearned income from something? Well... tough. Time to get a refrigerator and stop sawing up the pond every winter.

No just against GPLv3

Posted Jan 28, 2006 2:46 UTC (Sat) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link]

"Heck, I'd like free hamburgers, free cars, and the latest novels from modern writers for free, too."

Someone do me a favour and send him here:

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/111123

for one I wrote last year. Hey, it is just a first draft so far, but I have hopes for it. I have my one from the year before that being edited now as well and as soon as I can figure out how to BY-SA it I will be putting that up too. (The issue I have is with quotes from many songs (normally a line or two) as that one is set in the mid 70s.)

"But why are DEVELOPERS, the people who MAKE THEIR LIVING from this stuff, supposed to welcome the erosion of value in their industry?"

Perhaps becuase it REDUCES the costs and INCREASES the quality of our raw materials and our production equiptment? That could be one of the reasons.

all the best,

drew

No just against GPLv3

Posted Jan 28, 2006 22:13 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Also, if pay is saner, the only people writing software will be people doing it for love of it --- and the sooner the people who write software just to make money stop writing any, the better the field will be.

(What's especially bad is in companies, when these people cause immense damage to the software written by the dedicated with half-baked just-good-enough unmaintainable crud...)