20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
11:58 a.m.
Rumor has it that der Mouse may have mentioned these words:
But why should you put a moral bent on a personal choice?
IOW, you're saying it's OK to be a bigot.
"I don't hate him because he's German, I hate him because he's not
FSF."
[[ I said German *solely* because I'm primarily German, and if I was going
to "pick on" someone, I figured it should be myself. I could've said
American Indian as well; that's the second largest contribution to my
personal gene pool... ]]
I do. It's his software, plain & simple. He has the right to do with it as
he wishes, bar none, and that's that.
Would it not be "unfair" to dislike you because you run BSD instead of Linux?
Expecting everyone else to live to *your* standards is a bit of a
stretch... is it not?
Regards,
Roger Merchberger
--
Roger Merchberger | "Bugs of a feather flock together."
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Russell Nelson
zmerch at 30below.com |
[...] and in
Dave's case, it's his freaking software. He can do with
it whatever he likes. If he doesn't want to release the source, then
people like Tony can take a chill pill.
Absolutely. But, conversely, if we (FSVO "we") want to think less of
him for choosing that way, that's up to us. Just because
it's non-commercial doesn't mean it should be open
source.
Not in general, but I think it does when the reason given for not
releasing the source is that it enables (as in "makes easier") the
creation of commercial competitors - and as that was one of the reasons
given upthread, I think it's not an entirely unfair thing to say.