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Subject: [News] GPL Sustains Freedom, Unlike BSD
From: Mark Kent
Date: 12/18/2007 3:48:23 PM
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> espoused:
> GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
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>| So what can we conclude from all this? Both license models make software
>| free, but only GPL software is sustainably free. The BSD gives greater
>| freedom, the GPL gives more freedom. Choose which one you value more.
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> http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2007/12/15/gpl-vs-bsd-a-matter-of-sustainability/
This is a debate which we've had here over and over. The microsoft
shilcosystem likes to call BSD more "free" because it allows people to
make it unfree.
To me, that appears to be a significant logical fallacy.
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