🚀 go-pugleaf

rsw@cs.brown.EDU (Bob Weiner) writes:

> In article <DAVIDM.92May20132127@consilium.com> davidm@consilium.com 
> writes:
>
> > What you seem to be suggesting is that IP rights (attempt to) ensure that t
> > rights of the individual are guarded, often at the cost of the public in
> > general.  On the other hand, GPL (attempts to) ensure the rights of
> > the public by changing the interests of the individual toward those
> > things that lead to the common good.  True?
> 
> I would tend to agree with this.  Does anyone, aside from the unnamed
> person who wanted to start the Truly FSF, have a problem with
> encouraging such behavior by GPLing your work?

The person who wanted to start the Truly FSF was not trying to say that 
GPL-style free software was bad; he was simply trying to say that it wasn't
the *only* way to achieve non-rip-offable free software.

I agree that GPL-style free software has its place, but I definitely don't
think that it is the answer to everything.  I don't think *anybody* could
have written the product that we at Mantis are developing without charging
serious amounts of money for it (which seems to preclude the GPL), for
example.  

I'm not sure whether you are advocating the GPL for everything or just 
the GPL for a lot of things.

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