🚀 go-pugleaf

In <eZ9FgB20w164w@mantis.co.uk>, From A to B  manages to 
contradict himself in the same post, an admirable feat:

>
>There are always going to be people who don't do things the way you think
>they should be done.  There are several ways you can deal with this:
>1. Try to pass laws to make them do things your way.
>2. Let them do things their way, but don't give them any assistance.
>3. Tolerate opinions which differ to your own.  Give people the freedom
>   to make their own decisions, and rely on persuasion to entice them or 
>   educate them into doing things your way.
>
>The FSF approach is #1.  Rather than saying "Look what freely-available
>software has done for you.  Here's why you should keep the software 
>freely-available..." they resort to restrictive licenses, manifestos and
>propaganda about "evil software hoarders".
>
>What I'm suggesting above is #2. If I'd been more ambitious, I would 
>have advocated #3.
>
    Have you actually _read_ the GPL Mathew. Your example above clearly 
puts FSF software into 2, the option you support. How can you say that
allowing you to freely include their code into yours is _no_ assistance.
Or did you mean no assistance, outside of giving you their code for free.
    That's the famous "what's  your's is mine, what's mine is mine" 
philosophy, isn't it?



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