On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:51:24AM +0300, Ely Levy wrote:
> so you think going to a program which someone spend hours on
> planing and designing,
> or as people suggested before months of living off saving and working full
> time on it.
> and then someone comes after all this efford and say cool design/idea
> lets copy it and make it GPL, and ofcourse it takes him a lot less time
> cause the planing and desiging is already done.
>
> that is prefectly ok thing to do?
Either yes, or you can't say "I have nothing against the GPL".
The whole ideology of the FSF is that people should not make a living
out of generally-usable software, which they once wrote and then
get a salary from for the rest of their life, but from actual _work_
(support, custom versions, etc.). The _ideas_ should be free.
>
> Ely Levy
>
>
> On 15 Jul 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > no I don't have anything against GPL only against idea leechers.
> >
> > Like Linus leeched Linux from the UNIX design?
> > Like Stallman leeched gcc from AT&T labs?
> > Like Larry Wall leeched Perl from the UNIX utilities?
> > Like GIMP leeched from Photoshop?
> > Like Miguel leeched midnight commander from norton commander?
> >
> > Yeah, those idea leechers should be killed!
> > Hell, killing's too good them, they should be tortured, and *than* killed.
> >
> > If youuse someone else's idea, why, it's as though you came to his house,
> > raped his mother and sister, killed his father, set fire to it, and then
> > danced around the fire! Only worse!
> >
> > We should all just use our own ideas, and never read or see what someone
> > else did, and if we do (*by mistake*) learn of someone else's idea we should
> > forget it immediately. If we can't forget, we must approach that person and
> > offer him large sums of money to sell us a license to keep the idea in our
> > heads.
> >
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