Re: Economics and the GPL

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Anthony Taylor wrote:

> Well,  I *was* just being facetious, but....

Well, I didn't say you weren't. :-)

> I do not believe in murder, but I am willing to kill in self-defense, or 
> even in defense of others.  I do not believe that makes me hypocritical. 
>  I do not see much difference between the two situations, other than 
> severity and drama.  Copyright is a sword which may be used to kill 
> itself.  That is what the GPL attempts to do.  The fact that it must use 
> the same copyright laws it is trying to defeat is ironic, not hypocritcal.

Yeah, that's a reasonable argument to make.

>          - Tony "My License Requires People Speak Like Donald Duck" Taylor

Okay, that's just twisted!

Deven