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To: Knitebane
Only if you're too stupid to read the license.

Sounds like the dealings of the most untrustworthy salesman. No wonder Gates is such a success, he looks like a choirboy compared to you goons.

Again, only it the work is published.

I said if they dare ever try to sell it, it is you with the reading comprehension problem my friend.

And you can sell your code if you wish.

But you must also give it away at the same time, don't you. Since you can't be trusted to answer correctly, the answer is yes.

So if it's also available for free, why in the world would anybody want to buy that? Answer again: they won't, why should they, their beloved "community" is providing it for them, rather than them having to work and accept what they can afford.

175 posted on 01/13/2005 9:26:33 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Sounds like the dealings of the most untrustworthy salesman. No wonder Gates is such a success, he looks like a choirboy compared to you goons.

In order to publish under the GPL, you have to include a copy of the GPL. It's part of the requirement. The only people that don't have a copy and read it are trolls like you.

I said if they dare ever try to sell it, it is you with the reading comprehension problem my friend.

Liar. You said, and I quote:

""Open source" is a trick, masquerading as public domain, but requiring the creator the obligation to return back to "the community" not only his rights to that work, but all future improvements to that work, with nothing ever in return."

You mentioned nowhere that it's only if you publish it. You intentionally made it appear through your intentional omission that any work must be turned over to the community.

But you must also give it away at the same time, don't you. Since you can't be trusted to answer correctly, the answer is yes.

I'd prefer to answer my own questions, thank you.

So if it's also available for free, why in the world would anybody want to buy that?

Ask RedHat, IBM and SuSE. They have lots of people buying their "free" code.

Answer again: they won't, why should they, their beloved "community" is providing it for them, rather than them having to work and accept what they can afford.

This is why I don't want you answering questions for me. It's because you're nearly always wrong.

177 posted on 01/13/2005 9:37:58 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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