[Mandrakeot] ESR gives up on Fedora

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Tue Feb 27 14:53:47 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:19 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Hikaru Amano wrote:
> > On 2/27/07, Avi Kivity <avi at argo.co.il> wrote:
> >> Free software is great, but it has to be voluntary.  Forcing all
> >> software to be free is wrong.
> >>
> >
> > They didnt force u to make your fully owned software free .. But if
> > you choose to use their code to make your software, you have to follow
> > their rules .. if your software 100% owned by you .. nobody forcing
> > you to opensource it ...
> >
> 
> You've lost the thread.  I'm not against the GPL (I've released GPL'ed 
> software), I am against abolishing copyright (and thus placing all 
> software and media in the public domain).

Then you lost the thread, we were talking about the GPL and the kernel,
and how following the rules set by kernel devs. is the right thing.

The secondary thread, was on the nature of Intellectual Property, not
about abolishing it.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com>
Sr Software Engineer
Base Operating Systems
Red Hat Inc.




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