Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: If loadable modules are covered by Linux GPL? | From | Mike Coleman <> | Date | 29 Aug 2000 17:43:45 -0500 |
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes: > Even M$ doesn't require that I give proprietary information away. > If Linux wants to become the new standard for the computing industry, > GPL or whatever can't claim any ownership of the work a company > has done while using it.
This almost seems like a troll. We who write GPLed software don't claim ownership of other's work--we just specify the conditions under which the others can use *our* work. What's wrong with that? Are you saying we should just give our work away to you with compensation at all? You Communist! ;-)
Regarding Microsoft, I suppose that's true. Microsoft is about taking control away from users and giving it to vendors, and the GPL is, to a degree, the reverse. The smart user will gravitate towards GPLed software, and in a fair and competitive marketplace, the smart vendors will follow.
--Mike
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