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What I think about RMS's hatred of closed source(cafepress.com)
2 points by critic 18y ago|3 comments
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by critic 18y ago
Nonsense. > Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs That means "in some cases", not "in all cases". Logical fallacy on your part. > ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs Here, GPL
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by critic 18y ago
> but if it weren't for this guy you We'd be using OS X and FreeBSD instead of Linux. Who's laughing now?
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by critic 18y ago
Somebody, please save RMS, write an Emacs mode that inserts spaces into JavaScript and converts single char names into made up longer ones! For extra bonus, insert comments that talk about how if you are not using GNU, you are a slave! A sl
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by critic 18y ago
> It's not clear at all why you think you should be entitled to that code I never said I was. In the GNU utopia, Linux killed MS and all libraries are GPL. My options are: 1. Spend years writing apps that help cure cancer, GPL them and
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by critic 18y ago
By accompanying your object code with GPL/LGPL, you are promising your customers that your code is GPL/LGPL, i.e. you will be bound to open your code. The fact that your understanding of the license is different shows just how sneaky and ob
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by critic 18y ago
But your planting of a tree doesn't automatically prevent the farmer you bought the apple from from making any money. If I have to release my code under GPL, I can't make money charging thousands for it (low volume type of app). If I can't
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by critic 18y ago
No. Whose object code? Is it talking about my object code or the library's? Ten lines per function, per header, per library, per program? Edit: I think you didn't understand LGPL yourself either. I think in the quoted lines, "object code
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by critic 18y ago
If, as you say, LGPL, is clear to you, what do you think "object code" refers to in the (b) clause you just quoted? How are the "ten lines" counted in the paragraph above (you didn't quote): separately or total? etc. etc.
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by critic 18y ago
This sounds like a web developer arguing that all software should be free, except web apps. In my opinion, all software should be free, when all groceries are free.
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by critic 18y ago
That's what they want you to believe. Try reading the license. You have to know how many lines from the header file you are "distributing" (in the GNU lingo). If you are using C++ templates, you are probably screwed. You have to make sure
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by critic 18y ago
RMS is complaining about Obfuscript. Speaking of obfuscation, I hope someone would deobfuscate LGPL for me.
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by critic 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460914
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by critic 18y ago
"communist"
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by critic 18y ago
Google: "Did you mean: Quantos"
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by critic 18y ago
> if commercials are synchronized Are they? If there are 9 synchronized channels and 1 that's not. I believe that 1 wins, because everyone else switches there out of boredom.
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by critic 18y ago
I bet TV ads stopped working as well when TV remotes became popular.
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by critic 18y ago
> There are plenty of examples of successful companies that have used this model Do you mean they used their blog as the main marketing effort? I'd like to hear more about those. It seems if the users are looking at your blog, they've
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by critic 18y ago
Do not operate without a helmet and a mouth guard.
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by critic 18y ago
I wonder why they didn't use wxHaskell instead for the GUI. Also, what's up with Greek identifiers?
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by critic 18y ago
What do they do just north of SF?
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by critic 18y ago
> for some reason the business guys needed rails developers Not anymore?
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by critic 18y ago
also LOLcats and Homer Simpson. I usually go for 3 allusions per joke.
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by critic 18y ago
Hamburger... I hate Ramen.
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by critic 18y ago
You can quit, or you can tell your bosses that you are overqualified for the job and ask for a raise and promotion. Then you can quit. The latter can be seen as an experiment and a life lesson. If you are quitting anyway, you have nothing t
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by critic 18y ago
The fact that you were downmodded tells me that the bozos are now the majority of HN. Time for a new digg clone?
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by critic 18y ago
Incorporating intelligence is the hard part.
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by critic 18y ago
Are you sure it's tipping? How come the sales staff in some supermarkets in the US are nice, even when they don't work on commission and tips? Perhaps it's a combination of many factors: tips, commission, weather, culture, religion and guns
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by critic 18y ago
They took pictures of Earth, mostly. I'm assuming the writer may be foreign, and merely didn't use the correct preposition.
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by critic 18y ago
Hate to be a party-pooper, but if you can send a balloon there, it's not outer space yet.

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