+-------[ Terry Lambert ]----------------------
| Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
| > | I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, and
| > | they were oh so happy to consider another license for the year I tried
| > | to push for it for use in a FreeBSD based IBM product.  Not.
| > 
| > Of course not, the GPL protects them from competitors taking and improving
| > their product and selling it at a profit without having to share. Ironic
| > isn't it, that the GPL has become a tool of the "oppressors" d8)
| 
| Perhaps you missed the fact that I was *ALSO* IBM at the time.

I didn't. I wasn't saying you were a competitor, just that the GPL is a
convenient license for corporations to use. IBM are bigger than most 
governments, were you surprised that the bureaucracy is too?

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