[OT] What is Open Source? (was Re: ANN: Twisted 0.16.0...)

[Andrew McNamara]

>Interersting.  If so, then RMS is 'guilty' of an almost humorous
>contradiction.  The GPL *is* an assertion of property rights in code,
>backed up by FSF lawyers.  It explicity extracts a price from those
>who would use GPL software.  It is not directly monetary, but it is a
>price nonetheless, as evidenced by the fact that many do not choose to
>pay, even though they might be willing to pay a reasonable amount of
>money to get the same software without the non-monetary price
>attached.

Speculation - maybe he's aware of this and simply sees it as playing
what he sees as a fatally flawed system against itself? 8-)

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/