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>Many people disagree with me on this, but their disagreement usually comes down to "the GPL is best for user freedom because it was created for user freedom an
by liviu- 11y ago
>Many people disagree with me on this, but their disagreement usually comes down to "the GPL is best for user freedom because it was created for user freedom and RMS is talking about user freedom."
I don't think there's a need to create weak straw arguments, when an obvious argument is that GPL forces companies creating new products based on GPL-licenced software to open-source these products, thus aggressively perpetuating "user freedom". This may or may not be efficient in the long term, but I don't think the answer is very clear cut with the current knowledge base.
- epistasis 11y agoI didn't mean to create a straw man, and I kind of intended exactly what you say there (if I'm understanding you): being "aggressive" means that it does the most for user freedom. I like your terminology better though and will use it in the future.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago> I don't think there's a need to create weak straw arguments, when an obvious argument is that GPL forces companies creating new products based on GPL-licenced software to open-source these products. The obvious argument is that several people disagree with you on this (see the comment about linux being GPL or using GPL software at a bank.), so the GPL is not serving its purpose because people don't understand its purpose.