Re: bias...

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  Brett, this is the last time I'll write something as a reply to your
whining, but this time I've had enough of you...

  There will be no more reply from me to ANY of your mails.

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 12:15 PM 6/4/2002, Marco Pietrobono wrote:
>
> >  nobody is forced to use a *GPL codebase.
>
> The FSF has stated many times that it wants developers -- and
> governments -- to be forced to use GPLed code, and has actually
> been attempting to get this legislated in some countries.

  What the FSF is trying to do has nothing to do with us or with who has
to decide if they want to use the *GPL codebase or not.

  and even the countries that are thinking to introduce the Free Software
in their legislation are doing so as the "preferred" way to have the
software used by the state, they are not forcing the private and the
corporations/companies to use the Free Software.

  are you ever been constricted to use a *GPL codebase? why? you can
always code all by yourself. Or don't you know how to code?

> Also, the presence of GPLed code, because it destroys markets
> for commercial products, has led in many cases to a situation
> in which one *is* forced to use it. There can be no financial
> reward for developing an alternative -- even a superior one --
> because so long as the GPLed code is even marginally adequate
> a sufficient number of customers will not buy a product for which
> they must pay. This is what is happening now with GCC. It is,
> on most existing platforms and virtually all new architectures,
> preventing the development of commercial compilers. And this
> despite the fact that it is, at best, mediocre.

  shit. GCC is not destroying anything. Have you checked how many
compilers are still around?

  And even if you don't like GCC, why don't you start to write another
compiler? and don't tell me it is impossible, tell it to Torvalds,..

  BTW, Watcom and even Borland have been beaten to death by the Microsoft
Visual C/C++, certainly not from the GCC. Please, check your facts BEFORE
saying these lies.

> >If you don't want to play that game, you can always
> >find another game to play.
>
> In other words, we should allow the GPL to force programmers
> to abandon their chosen profession? I don't know about you, but
> I don't believe that it is ethical or moral for the FSF to be able
> to dictate what people do for a living or to destroy their
> livelihoods due to one man's 20-year-old grudge.

  I still need to see what YOU code. I don't think anyone in the world has
ever seen one line of code from you.

  I'm a programmer, and I don't feel threatened by the *GPL code. I'm
using it every time I write something, and I'm still working. Yep, I need
to refuse jobs, too, since I can do only so much in my time.

  You are the one whose livelihoods will be destroyed, or all the
parasites like you, who only asks and never give back anything.

  well, you know, I don't have any compassion about you and all those
people like you.

 and just for the sake of discussion, the livelihood have been destroyed
and will be destroyed continuosly while the tecnology advances and spreads
it changes into the society. How many smiths do you know today?

  bye,

/pietrobo who returns to lurking and will not reply anymore...


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The only winning move
is not to play.
What about a nice play of chess ?
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