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To: antiRepublicrat
That's almost every commercial license out there

Demonstrate where any commercial software company has confiscated more code from any user than the Free Software Foundation has.

123 posted on 02/23/2006 2:26:12 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle; antiRepublicrat
Demonstrate where any commercial software company has confiscated provided more code from to any user than the Free Software Foundation has.

How's that?

125 posted on 02/23/2006 2:30:52 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Golden Eagle
Demonstrate where any commercial software company has confiscated more code from any user than the Free Software Foundation has.

Demonstrate where the FSF has. The thing about copyright infringers of GPL code is that it's much cheaper to just give up the added code than pay possibly millions in damages at court. Luckily for these copyright infringers, free software gives them that option, which so far everyone has taken. In the proprietary world they just have to pay up.

126 posted on 02/23/2006 2:35:21 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
Demonstrate...

And, please, demonstrate where any open source license (as defined and accepted by opensource.org) attempts to quash the freedom of speech of the users the way Microsoft does.

129 posted on 02/23/2006 2:42:36 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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