Am 18.11.2011 20:39, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > You really don't think that license managers, software patents, NDAs, > non-competition agreements, hidden source code, secret algorithms, and > forbidding your users from doing whatever they want with the software > is at all bad? That's what the opposite of free software is. And > that's what I don't think should be encouraged by Octave-Forge.
This was not directed to me, but I still feel the need to comment on that. What you describe are all kinds of bad business practices thrown together in one melting pot and claiming that this is the mere definition of whatever exist as proprietary software is. You obviously never made a program for a paying customer which is delivered as the sole property for that customer for example (which in no way restricts the rights of the person or company who bought it to use it without any restriction). You obviously never worked for a small company making highly customized software for a small amount of users which simply will not work without paying developers for their work and which will lead to no income if you give it away waiting for a donation (the company I work for has worldwide only 1000 customers and it will not be more if we distribute the code and make it free, because nobody else has any use for it). It seems to me from the tone I see in your other post that only one person has the right point of view and that is you, everyone else who has a slightly different opinion just fails compared to that. Let me ask you who empowered you to speak as representative for the free software community which does not consist only of the FSF and the GNU project and to bash other people? Your behavior is disrespectful to other people and this weights much more than any question about free vs. non-free software and you should learn to understand that even if your are right (what I for my person do not see) there is simply no excuse and no justification for violating other persons right to be treated with the respect every person (with whatever opinion about the topic discussed) deserves. At this point I will definitely leave this debate and almost regret having commented on it at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
