Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 28 01:15:03 UTC 2008


> > And part of the reason for GPLv3 was to make such
> things more difficult. 
> >    The FSF isn't doing you any favors.
> 
> They wanted to ensure a strategy Tivo partook in
> didn't happen again,
> Tivo tried to steal code from people that didn't
> want it used that way.
> It was a legal loophole so they can benefit solely,
> that isn't ok in the
> FOSS world...
> 
> If I stole your credit cards, transferred the money
> to my account, and
> gave the card back, you wouldn't feel too good about
> that, would you?
> 
> How about if I justified it saying "you can still
> use the card", would
> that make it ok?
> 
> No, code is money.
> 
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Right.  Code is precious.  And it has to be protected
against the forces of evil.  The credit card example
is awesome! :)

Regards,

Antonio 


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