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by rick888 16y ago
"Which Mullenweg and the FSF believe is right. Which is the reason the LGPL exists. Just because you believe it to be the case that users of libraries are not derivatives of those libraries does not make it true. Nor does the belief of the
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by rick888 16y ago
The problem is that even if you are on the schedule, everyone else is not. It just doesn't seem practical to me to take mini-naps every 20 minutes.
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by rick888 16y ago
I love this quote: "Even if Thesis hadn’t copy and pasted large swathes of code from WordPress (and GPL plugins) its PHP would still need to be under the GPL, Mullenweg wrote on his blog. He also began encouraging Thesis users to abandon th
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by rick888 16y ago
I won't use anything related to flattr. Mostly because the guys that created it are heavily involved in thepiratebay. They trample on the rights of copyright owners in the name of "freedom" and "good will" and charge 10% on top of all tra
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by rick888 16y ago
This is why you shouldn't base your entire business on a 3rd party service.
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm not really sure what you're ranting against, but the whole point of the GPL is to force "give some, get some", and to stop people from profiting off of other people's work." My point was that Richard Stallman for years claimed that thi
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by rick888 16y ago
"You are making presumptions again here. I've tried Linux, I prefer OS X is all. As I've said already, OS X seems to be the best environment for Rails development. If I sell my startup for millions, Apple wins big through additional sales."
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by rick888 16y ago
"And YES I could just use Linux, before you ask, but I'm getting quite used to TextMate." So because you can't be bothered with using something that's free, you are going to disrespect apple's license. There are plenty of free text editors
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by rick888 16y ago
"The problem with clamping down on piracy is where do you draw the line?" Why should the GNU get any more attention or rights than anything else? If people can't respect my copyrighted work, I sure as hell won't respect GNU licensed softwa
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by rick888 16y ago
"Instead, someone is seeking personal gain/fame (aka the "rich") vs the people who volunteered their time ("poor") and that's just not right." It's strange that you say this, because no matter how many times someone creates a proprietary ap
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by rick888 16y ago
"The whole point of the GPL is to stop companies from profiting off of other's programs without also giving something back to the community. Noone in the "pirate movement" supports for-profit piracy or copyright infringement." Really? so th
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by rick888 16y ago
"I would expect this number to be close to 0. What does this even mean?" What do you even need to pirate to make a web app? Rails, php, apache, mysql are all free
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by rick888 16y ago
"How many people here on HN have used pirated software to help build a web app? Quite a few I'd bet. If your fledging web app is a success, whose software are you gonna buy when you are successful? The one you 'test-drove' as a pirate of co
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by rick888 16y ago
I wonder what the response would be like if there was a party dedicated to breaking the GPL. Piracy seems to be fine, but anybody that violates an open source license like the GPL gets demonized like they are a criminal.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Actually, if you wanted continued work, you'd pay for it. You get only one free job, which should be limited in scope. If you want more work, you won't get it for free, and that's reason enough for any freelancer to keep working with you."
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by rick888 16y ago
"And the conclusion is that he should offer his labor for minimum or some other small wage, and that conclusion is false." no, it's not false. If someone told me they would work on my website for free, I wouldn't want to give them any seri
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by rick888 16y ago
"Thesis itself can be fixed by removing any infringing code, but the developer's reputation might be more difficult to repair." Considering that he was already attacked when the guys from wordpress didn't even know if he was using code or n
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by rick888 16y ago
"(I linked this in my other reply to you as well. Sorry for the repetition, but I think it was worth mentioning in both places.)" Well, the RIAA considers copyright infringement "theft". It doesn't make either of these true.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Complying with the license to avoid breaking the law and risking a lawsuit is usually a very compelling argument for a business person. But not this one, that much is clear." I love all the posts here about "breaking the law". I never see
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by rick888 16y ago
"He still hasn't changed one bit on his opinion of plugins/themes and the GPL." Well, matt wasn't offering a compelling argument for chris to release under the GPL either, so I guess they are even.
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by rick888 16y ago
If it's just function calls to the Wordpress code, I still can't see how it can be considered derivative. He also does not distribute Wordpress along with his theme. It's the user's job to put them together. This to me means it's separat
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by rick888 16y ago
"It seems to me that Matt went into it not wanting to sue" He still hasn't changed one bit on his opinion of plugins/themes and the GPL.
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by rick888 16y ago
"According to WordPress' intent stated here: http://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/ the themes are being considered a derivative work. I'm not a lawyer and honestly not a huge fan of the GPL, but this seems pretty clear-cu
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by rick888 16y ago
"WordPress' position on what parts must be GPLed is quite clear, and explicitly excludes CSS and media. The PHP portions of the themes are the parts they argue must be GPLed." If the portions he used only contain function calls, I wouldn't
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by rick888 16y ago
"It's almost like you could license your product and explain how it must be used, and then someone comes along and decides not to obey the license just because they don't feel like obeying it." Not really. Thesis shouldn't be considered a
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by rick888 16y ago
"Exactly... and it is obvious the Chris came into this discussion with his mind set (and not open) and didn't listen to a single thing Matt said." Do you think Matt would have changed his mind either? From his tweets and past interviews, h
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by rick888 16y ago
open source zealots are in full force tonight
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by rick888 16y ago
If calling a function from a GPL project or having css/html that interact with a GPL project means that your project needs to also be open sourced, this should be a wakeup call to all businesses to not get anywhere near the license.
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by rick888 16y ago
"If people are going to steal thesis they will steal it. GPL doesn't change that." No, it doesn't. But it doesn't give you any right to stop people from stealing it. Someone could also come out with the thesis 2 theme, not change anything
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by rick888 16y ago
"He seems to not understand the difference between lgpl and the gpl." If calling a function from a GPL project or having css/html that interact with a GPL project means that your project needs to also be open sourced, this should be a wakeu

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