Re: The Free Software Definition - Free Software Foundation

In article <kD9Mk.22087$4u2.17285@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@xxxxxxx> wrote:

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:nospam-B18A27.13162223102008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aren't open source licenses a way to retain copyright while giving way
software?

Yes they are and I always include my source code with my programs and
my own licencing for the occasion.

I didn't mean to denigrate the educational value of your (considerable)
oeuvre. The Aztec C Museum is an extraordinary work. What license do you
use? Sorry, I didn't see it on the site?

But I disagree with Stallman's totalitarianism.

http://www.fsf.org/

I thought he was more of a leftist:

<http://www.stallman.org/>

Looking at the list of causes he espouses, I can't help but wonder how
tempted he was by clauses like "free for non-military use" or "free for
proponents of <cause-du-jour>." I like his no-strings-attached concept
for using free software. I'm guessing it's the redistribution-
of-derived-works part of the GPL you find onerous.

I've never met a doctor or a lawyer who gives their time for nothing.
I've never met a doctor who doesn't.

I meant gives their time "exclusively for nothing" Dr. John.

Fair enough.

Back again to Stallman's totalitarianism, and I'll clean that up by
withdrawing the comment altogether, but my point is really that
software authors should be remunerated as in every profession.

Agreed.

If I'd said "Bricklayers" I'd probably have got a Brick in the head:)
but I can't begin to count the number of times that people who can
afford a repair shop have phoned me to fix their kid's computer after
hours over the last 30 years when they hear that I develop software.

Sympathy. Inexplicably, my Windows using relatives find my Mac advocacy
off-putting. :-)

Again, comment withdrawn.

--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/
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