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Following a superior model

Following a superior model

Posted May 23, 2007 22:41 UTC (Wed) by i3839 (guest, #31386)
In reply to: Following a superior model by man_ls
Parent article: A day at the Open Source Business Conference

> asking them to give some of their own back would not be so outrageous.

Following the same logic, you could ask writers who use open source for their work to release their books under a free license.

Distributing local modifications to free software used is of course something different and a very good thing, but still not something that should be forced. Just imagine the pain when using a LGPL library with your own buggy program that arbitrarily scribbles memory!


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Following a superior model

Posted May 31, 2007 12:06 UTC (Thu) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link]

"Following the same logic, you could ask writers who use open source for their work to release their books under a free license."

OK. Here you go:

http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=zotzbro
http://pc.celtx.com/profile/zotz
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%28creator%3A%22d...

If we can figure out a way for people to make a decent living using Free Licenses, why not seek to promote such?

all the best,

drew

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