[Ma-linux] [Novalug] [FOSE] Starting the discussion

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

greg pryzby wrote:
> James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>> You seem to Miss The Point. Ethics and Logic Give No Quarter. And 
>> Action is either Right/Logical or Wrong/Illogical.
> 
> You opinion and it is shared by many. However, I stand by, Free means 
> free to do what I want. BSD is free and GPL is not. It restricts what 
> can be done.

Depends on which angle you look at it from. It is the SOFTWARE that is 
Free, not the PEOPLE who use it.

As a Free person in America and most Civilized Societies, our actions as 
People are still limited. We may not, for example, Sell Ourselves (or 
our Family) into Slavery; we may not Sell Our Organs without Dying 
First, and even then, they must be given away.

Ultimately, the distinction may not matter anyway, as a company who 
takes a Public Domain piece of software X and modifies it into Y cannot 
prevent others from using X as they wish as well.

Perhaps this boils down to the Business view of the Composition vs 
Inheritance paradigm that the Object Oriented people debate all the time.

JIM