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In article <ymHJeB12w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:
>nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>> But if you believe that all software should be free, then by all means stick
>> to the GPL - it's definitely the way to go.
>
>I dispute this.  If you think all software should be free, the best thing
>to do is to encourage the creation of free software; not to encumber software

You're right, it's not the only way to go.  GNU has taken the communist
model which assumes that people won't by default do the right thing, you
have to force them to.  You're arguing for the libertarian model, that if
you leave it all open people will do the right thing in the long run.
(It always pisses off both my communist and libertarian friends when I
tell them that their end goals are the same :-).
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.