Re: [circle] GPL Violation - no I wont

[Jiri Baum]

Hello,

David Irvine:
> > > Real innovation will require commercialisation to an extent from time
> > > to time

Jiri:
> > Cite?

David Irvine:
> Well I am Scottish and many things have come from here

[snip list of examples]

Ah, so nothing actually to do with software (or even similar fields). I'm not 
saying software is unique, but it certainly does seem to have significant 
differences from, say, the invention of television.

> Then I put  it back to you to tell me of software innovation where people
> can be focused on it full time, create a new concept (has to be a good one
> though) and survive whilst doing it. 

If you can find such a mechanism, that'd be great. So far, you haven't even 
proposed one, much less argued that it would, in fact, have these features.

Meanwhile, we'll continue to use the best of the known approaches, which would 
be the one based on the GPL.

> I really feel there is a case for allowing this in a properly run society
> (which is what OSS is attempting to do) 

Umm, no.

OSS has no interest in whether society is properly run or otherwise. OSS is a 
pragmatic method of producing software.

A properly run society is the goal of the Free Software movement, which you 
deride.


Jiri
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