No just against GPLv3 [LWN.net]

No just against GPLv3

Posted Jan 28, 2006 2:46 UTC (Sat) by zotz (guest, #26117)
In reply to: No just against GPLv3 by proski
Parent article: Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet)

"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

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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...)