Toward true open source

Posted by dave on Jul 16, 2004 11:32 AM EDT
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In the GNU General Public License (GPL), Richard Stallman was working toward a noble purpose. Software should be free-as-in-freedom, and every user should be able to obtain the source code for the software they use. Unfortunately, that isn't the way things have turned out. The GPL has come to resemble digital rights management (DRM) more than it resembles freedom. Does that sound a little extreme? I'll explain.

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Drivel Galik 0 1,613 Jul 16, 2004 1:55 PM
Another fine example Void_Main 0 1,666 Jul 16, 2004 1:15 PM

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