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To: Golden Eagle
The "beauty" of open source? Leftists like Richard Stallman can rip your code and put you out of business?

There quite a number of "consevatives" on this site who think that stealing software is OK.

28 posted on 10/10/2006 6:54:21 AM PDT by Protagoras (Billy only tried to kill Bin Laden, he actually succeeded with Ron Brown and Vince Foster.)
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To: Protagoras; Golden Eagle
There quite a number of "consevatives" on this site who think that stealing software is OK.

He's not against "stealing" software -- that is, taking open source software to use somewhere else according to the license. He is against the GPL's terms that if you take (make a derivative work based on the software), you have to give back your changes to the author as payment. He's fine with the "take all you want as long as you leave the attribution" BSD license.

32 posted on 10/10/2006 7:20:17 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Protagoras
There quite a number of "conservatives" on this site who think that stealing software is OK.

And you'll notice by their childish behavior they don't like it being pointed out. They're mostly college kids or still in their 20's, can't see past their own little world.

39 posted on 10/10/2006 7:31:46 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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