Flame War

[john saylor]

ciao

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Now, this is getting dangerously close to flamebait, but Free Software is as much to blame as anything else.

i would both agree and disagree. you seem to define ownership as a
personal thing. one discreet individual owning some thing [this is a
common definition]. with that in mind, it is true that the GPL does
not allow ownership [absolute control issued from one individual].

but, i would counter that the GPL takes an evolutionary view of
ownership, putting it onto the society at large. so, in this way, it
aims to *protect* the rights of the community by preventing them from
being controlled by a single individual. especially in programming, we
are all standing on the shoulders of those that came before us, right?

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