From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 19 Jul 2010 13:46 On 2010-07-18, Kenneth Tilton wrote: .... > Right, and this "fascinating" and "amazing" and "awesome" post needs > only one rejoinder: twenty-four years later all we have is "free as in > beer" software being milked by proprietary enterprises. > > Sadly, they would be more effective and more profitable if RMS had never > existed, because then they would be paying fair market price for > significantly better proprietary tools driven by the demands of a > price/value competitive market. > > What we do not have is any interesting amount of "free as in speech" > software, because no one uses the GPL. I use nothing but free software, the vast majority of which is licensed under the GPL. > The LGPL is Stallman's way of saying, OK, I was wrong. You obviously don't understand the LGPL. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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