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1 posted on 01/29/2008 7:46:02 AM PST by N3WBI3

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2 posted on 01/29/2008 7:46:46 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)

GPL seeks to impose it's license virality even across executable boundaries; for this reason, it's not even safe to execute a GNU program (even a commodity utility like sort or uniq) from a closed-source program!

Is it just me, or is the author suggesting that it's unsafe to use GPL software on Windows?

What the author fails to recognize is that a lot of open source software exists because its author needed to get something done, wrote a piece of software, and then decided to give it away, in the hopes that others might find it useful too. Not all open source is created as a business.

3 posted on 01/29/2008 8:12:20 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Admin Moderator for President.)

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