On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
For GPL-licensed software I recommend the term covenant(ed)
software. So-called free software, as rms uses the term, is
totally dependent on the GPL, which leverages the State's monopoly on
violence to compel modifiers of the
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
For GPL-licensed software I recommend the term covenant(ed)
software. So-called free software, as rms uses the term, is
totally dependent on the GPL, which leverages the State's monopoly on
violence
The GPL is merely a covenant license which closes the (mathmatical
definition alike) ring of Free Software so all operations don't create a
derivate outside that definition.
Ring of Stallmanism, not free software.
Operations that use Free Software and result in non-Free Software
(outside
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:52:56AM -0700, L wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
For GPL-licensed software I recommend the term covenant(ed)
software. So-called free software, as rms uses the term, is
totally dependent on the
blah blah blah
As usual you keep repeating what you said before but it _still_ does not
make it so.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:30:45PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:52:56AM -0700, L wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:17:46PM
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:30:32AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
blah blah blah
As usual you keep repeating what you said before but it _still_ does not
make it so.
It's not that you disagree that 1000g = 1Kg, it's how rudely you can
bash those who agree so.
Rui
--
Fnord.
Today is
Hey you said something that isnt complete bs! you get a cookie now!
1kg == 1000g! awesome!
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:44:00PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:30:32AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
blah blah blah
As usual you keep repeating what you said
On 12/17/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Free Software as Richard Stallman uses the term is BSD.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Uh-huh. Sure. Whatever. Z.
From the above-mentioned url: In the GNU project, we use copyleft to
protect these freedoms
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:04:10PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
(chomp chomp) nice, thanks. More please :D
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:33:05AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Hey you said something that isnt complete bs! you get a cookie now!
1kg == 1000g! awesome!
On Mon,
On 12/15/07, Gregg Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An advantage of the term covenanted software is that it is not
likely to be construed as necessarily a negative term, and hence might
be acceptable to RMS et al. A related but less charitable term:
cultic. Others: the GPL Compact;
It all boils down to language and rhetorical strategy. rms claims
that OBSD encourages the use of non-free software. The OBSD folks
consider that incorrect and slanderous.
Instead of tis so - tis not argumentation, I propose a search, not
for agreement, but for clear, simple, and pragmatic
As we weather the Category 5 'Flame-icane Strawman', I would like
to call attention to Gregg Reynolds' original post on this thread,
which I feel offers fresh thinking about how to talk about licensing,
and strategies for surviving the buffeting of the next great
Rhetorical Depression.
Well
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