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How can you "steal" something that is given away for free? Your accusation contains the truth of the matter. No "Free software" is actually free. The F stands
by nirvana 15y ago
How can you "steal" something that is given away for free?
Your accusation contains the truth of the matter. No "Free software" is actually free. The F stands for Fascism. Stallman gets to dictate who uses it and who doesn't without regard to what the GPL actually says.
At least, thats how it operates.
Notice how, Apple using and supporting free software has resulted no end in dishonest accusations from you and others in this thread?
This is why I will have nothing to do with your "movement" and oppose it at every turn.
- fluidcruft 15y agoI don't see how commenting on NeXT's attempts to circumvent the GPL was criticizing Apple at all. NeXT's goal was to wrap GCC with a proprietary wrapper thereby appropriating the FSF's work and denying users the freedom to modify and adapt it for their own purposes. Copyright laws are reality. Free software is pragmatically protected by copyright. Misappropriation of copyrighted works is considered "theft"/"stealing" by the groups with which Apple chooses to associate and for which Apple forces restrictive DRM on end users.