[Discuss] licensing: who freakin cares?

[eric.chadbourne at icloud.com (Eric Chadbourne)]

> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:59 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/9/2016 4:14 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>> I bet most of you really don't care.  I know most non-tech humans
>> couldn't care less.
> 
> True. They want their kit to work. That's usually the highest priority,
> although the tolerance for bugs and crashes has long since become
> disturbing to me.
> 

+1

> Second highest is that their kit interoperates with their co-workers'
> and cow-orkers' kits, their friends' and family members' kits and so forth.
> 
> Heck, most tech humans want these things, too.

Exactly!

> 
> I care about licensing because I don't want RMS's "users' utopia" to
> come to pass.

You know that isn't gonna happen.  Diversity of schemes could be beneficial.

- Eric
The one who might be wrong.