Robert Nesius: > Anyway - the GPL. It does world good, because it keeps people's > contributions in the public domain. When the US helped defeat Nazi Germany, anyone who shared the country's secrets was a traitor. Keeping some things secret from Germany and Japan helped us to defeat some countries that would have destroyed us if they could have. Does "world good" have anything to do with being a decent person? > Now take a step back and look at the > number of people who have contributed hours upon hours of effort to the > public domain via the GPL for no economic gain and ask yourself "Why would > they do that?" (Because they're stupid communists! HA! :) ). Some of them have been naive and haven't been rewarded much for their efforts. Others have taken advantage of that and made a lot off of the generosity of some well-meaning people. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111017/df14adb4/attachment.html>