On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:13:10 +0000, Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > freedom - 'free software', 'free as in speech', etc. What you have to > realise is that they're not talking about the freedom of the programmers, > but about the freedom of the software. The logic, i think, is that the > freedom of the code is the key to the freedom of the end-users: applying > the GPL to your code means that other programmers will be forced to apply > to to their code, which means that users of that code will get the > benefits of open source.
... which implies that one believes that every end-user has the potential to become a hacker. That, I think, is at the core of the GPL, and RMS's rantings are easier to understand if you keep that in mind. But yes, let's not dive too deeply into all that here. > Oops! ;-) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
