pehjota ([personal profile] pehjota) wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2012-02-02 03:53 pm (UTC)

Re: Evidently Matthew doesn't code but leaches money

This is ridiculous: free software was born to avoid developers from paying licensing fees

Excuse me, but what? Free software was born due to a culture that increasingly forbade sharing information with others. It had nothing to do with money.

and now someone found a way to make money out of the GPL (without even programming)

People have been making money with free software (including software available with the terms of copyleft licenses) for decades. If you're not trolling and really don't know how this can be true, I can point you to some examples and explanations.

so it's time complain about people that write unrestricted software.

The issue is not that some people offer software they've written with the terms of permissive licenses. The issue is that many companies infringe copyrights and this BusyBox replacement project appears to have corporate interest primarily for the avoidance of the consequences of such infringement.

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