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good PR move? I'm sick of this Apple love and hate meaningless discussion, please stop you all, this is insane. GNU has the copyright ownership over Gnu Go, if
by zppx 16y ago
good PR move? I'm sick of this Apple love and hate meaningless discussion, please stop you all, this is insane.
GNU has the copyright ownership over Gnu Go, if they wish they could seal the only saved copy of the source code in a safe and throw it into the sea, it's their software and they can do whatever they want, this includes enforcing the license they released their software under, the same way you can do whatever you want with your software, and I see that you made some great software.
- andrewljohnson 16y agoIt's funny you can say all of that with a straight face. You are indeed correct - GNU can do whatever they want with the software, and what they chose to do in this case was two-fold 1) embarrass Apple and 2) prevent people from using free software. If anyone is to blame here it is GNU, for choosing philosophy over the utility of people.
- zppx 16y agoThe whole point of my comment was that these [Apple-related] flames that are appearing in HN in the last 3 months or so are a great disgrace for this community, this is motive of the gross exaggeration in my comment, and the motivation of my 1st paragraph. I thought about including a paragraph about how GNU handled the case but I just found that it could contribute to a flame war that I have no interest in participate, I'm not a fan of GNU, I do not want to defend GNU or the FSF.