[Nel] [Flame][Offtopic] Congratulations + concerns

Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:57:10 -0400 (EDT)

+could the GPL bigots and zealots please find something else to do with
+their time?  you're wasting a lot of energy on something that is
+well-understood and needs very little additional explanation.
+
+elijah
+
+
+> > Software code in itself is not that important thing when GPL is
+> > concerned, 
+> > and beeing able to read it and extract the major concepts of a software
+> > is 
+> > the great thing  : u always proceed with reverse engineering , - the
+> > ever 
+> > coming question how do they do that - even when using software like ... 
+> > those which don't provide source code .
+> 
+> You didn't understand it...
+> GPL is not about reading others code... but giving you the freedom to copy, 
+> modify and resuse it under the GPL License.
+> 
+> > That's why GPL is a bad trick to minor companies and therefore for
+> > individuals :
+> > releasing code shows the overall software architecture , may let u get
+> > insights 
+> > about hardcore coded sections and definitively unprotects the source
+> > providers .
+> 
+> No, because all the code is under the GPL.
+> If you read it, and code it on your way, then you could set whatever license you 
+> want... it is up to your ethical being to say if you use GPL or not.
+>  
+> > Good and Exceptionnal concepts are quickly analysed (you always need to
+> > understand
+> > the philosophy that drives a software architecture to be able to use it)
+> > So major companies will reuse GPLed code that much faster than minor
+> > entities
+> > - as far as software production is concerned - 
+> > I think that instead of promoting talents ,GPL comes with a global
+> > leverage tendance .
+> 
+> You are totally wrong... GPL allow us the common user to join and build a big, 
+> great product. From my personal experience, I could have never build such 
+> project as mine is without GPL.
+> 
+> GPL promote talents as everyone learn fasters, so yes it do a leverage, but you 
+> get a better level that those close source fanatic. :-/
+>  
+> > Great support is provided to software users , but anyway , any reliable
+> > company 
+> > protects its sources ( Nevrax Executives don ot read that ). Please note
+> > that I'm in no way related to MS . 
+> > Isn't GPL the biggest break to creativity we ever seen since communism
+> > died 
+> > out of realism ?
+> 
+> GPL is not about companies, but about users.
+> GPL means to refuse to a lot of rights so that your users can share your work.
+> 
+> I suppose that Nevrax is using GPL because:
+> 1) It make faster the development.
+> 2) The user base is also developers base
+> 3) The open architecture means bugs are found faster and easier.
+> 4) Port to other OS are almost automatic.
+> 5) Personal Challenge ( 1st commercial GPL game )
+> 
+> Why in the hell people thing that Communism, Jew or Gay are bad things???
+> 
+>  
+> > Would GPL minds expect great french wine caves to make their 'elevage' 
+> > methods publically available - I love great wines - , but who ever
+> > thought 
+> > that we would get better wine through that way , that's not a reliable
+> > way of 
+> > thinking and only fools rush in .
+> 
+> Man... you have serious problems with your ethics.
+> If you say... "Mine is the best wine of the world", just tell me how you did, 
+> and I will do one better. What we have? A wine that is better than the better.
+> And as my way is not secret and open and free to use, someone will use it to 
+> create an even better one. 
+> That is what GPL is about, only fools don't understand.
+> 
+> > I don't want to minimize the brightness of people who go promoting the
+> > GPL concept ,
+> > (I 've the reputation to use my mind in very efficient ways though ) ,
+> > but
+> > since I'm tightened to realism in my comapany , I totally agree with GPL
+> > detractors .
+> > Privacy is definitively needed or the world dies out of any will .
+> 
+> Yes, Your world will die, because a new one will appear where there is no more 
+> secrets, where you won't be able to sell ideas, where you won't be allowed to 
+> forbid people to copy and share apps.
+>  
+> > I realize i might be removed from the list after that ,
+> > but I don't think it will happen .
+> 
+> GPL people is different. We tollerate different opinions.
+>  
+> > Back to development and implementation , lots of to do ahead (I wouldn't
+> > be there if not)
+> 
+> You are really inside... you should go back to school and learn something about 
+> ethics.
+> 
+> REgards,
+> 
+>                   Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin
+> 
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