Re: Transgaming missed the point of the X11 license
Tony Lambregts <[email protected]>
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Brett Glass wrote: >At 04:56 PM 6/5/2002, Roland wrote: > > > >>Hello, >> >>I had this insight suddenly: >> >>Q: Why does the X11 license encourage companies to share code? >>A: Because if they don't, the free developers may change the license to the LGPL! >> >> > >Not true. > >It encourages companies to share non-strategic code because it is >maintained for free and backporting changes is not required. > >Threats are always a poor way to motivate people. > Brett this first part is true, and if you had stopped your reply here you would have scored a point, insted you turn on the bile. and spew the following garbage. > >Oh, and if a developer is licensing his or her work under >the GPL or LGPL, he or she is NOT creating free software. S/he >is creating software that is encumbered with a viral, anti-business, >anti-programmer license. > This is pure and unadulterated opinion and not worthy of the electrons that carried it. If you want people to listen to you stop ejecting this kind of BS. Tony Lambregts