"renoX" <ren...@free.fr> wrote in message news:j8383e$1ul8$1...@digitalmars.com... > >I'd never seen it before - maybe I lead a sheltered life. >> >>GPL: "Free as in Herpes" >> >>Doesn't that just hit the nail on the head. > > No, not at all. > First, it isn't new: it's just the "GPL is viral" classic FUD,
Not that I care about anything GPL (rejected it long ago), but how is calling GPL'd code "viral" not appropriate when just placing uninfected code next to it, infects it? On another note: Isn't the goal of GPL to offer "crap code" with the intent-of/attempt-at getting good (valuable/saleable/researched/developd) code? A "something for nothing", "Gen Y", "entitlement" mindset? See: http://www.aspeneducation.com/article-entitlement.html