[ANNOUNCE] Umbra role-playing game 0.2 pre-alpha

[Brandon J. Van Every]

"Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes" <kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> wrote in message
news:slrn9e0tva.2cg.kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu...
>
>   And of course, everyone has the right to put their own code under
> whatever license he likes...  But using a virus license like his that
> takes away other peoples' rights to their own software, just by being
> mixed with his, is just vile.

Vile?  That's silly.  Your reaction is knee-jerk and shrill.  If somebody
wants to GPL or LGPL their own software they can jolly well do so.  Some
corporations and non-profit entities have given code away completely free
for any purpose whatsoever, just to get certain technological things to
happen, or as a loss leader for business power.  The only difference between
RMS and anyone else is his personal religion about how one should get the
customer over the barrel.  There's *always* a business model, somewhere.
Even if your business model is to give code away absolutely free for any
purpose no strings attached, just so that you can achieve a de facto
technological standard.

As you are so fond of saying yourself: Get Over It [TM].


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