Re: Economics and the GPL
Matt Seitz <[email protected]>
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"Deven T. Corzine" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > The GPL seeks > to take the choice away from the authors by saying "use the GPL or else". > (The "or else" expands to "or else you can't use this enormous base of > existing GPL code to build on top of".) This is like saying the grocery store seeks to take money away from people by saying "pay me money, or else you can't have this banana". Yes, in a literal sense the grocery is seeking to take money from people. One could also say the store is seeking to give bananas away. Neither is the whole truth. What is really happening is that the store is offering a voluntary exchange: if you will give me money, I will give you a banana. Likewise, I don't see the GPL as "taking choice away", I see it as offering an exchange: "I will give you x if you will give me y". That to me is not "taking", it is trading. ===== Sincerely, Matt Seitz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com