Greg Folkert wrote:
I've encountered this attitude before, and
rather than try to reply to everything, I'll
answer your questions.
[snip]
No, not really social order... social GREED... and social POWER.
So when did you start channeling Bill Gates? Or Darl McBride?
Really. This is just too far out. I don't "channel" anyone or
anything.
You are apparently very affected by Karl Max' idea of the
class conflict. You seem very upset by capitalism. Or at least
by success.
[snip]
I once couldn't read or view my old work after switching employer,
because I suddenly didn't have a licence for a certain program any more
and all work that was done with that program was more or less lost.
Umm, you never did have that license, then, and you used the software
in an unauthorized manner. In short, you used a pirate copy.
He suddenly didn't have access to Proprietary document formats, using
the Linux platform to write those documents. He may have done all the
"writing" at work with M$ word... shame he had to lose that work...
because he chose Linux to operate with now since he left his place of
employ.
It's a shame he didn't use a tool which he had a legitimate
right or priviledge to use.
Or are you saying that Microsoft owns the Documents because he used Word
to create them? And he would be pirating his own distinct work.?
Not at all. I'm saying that he misappropriated the product he
used to create it.
[1] http://www.de.debian.org/social_contract
I used this link to verify that I was using the version you had
in mind.
You are thinking and looking at things with a closed mind Mike. Please
move along to your preferred OS... and leave us poor Linux users. If you
I don't *have* a preferred OS. An OS is a means to load applications
and manage hardware. That's it. For any given circumstance, one
may be better than another. No one OS is better than all others.
I use more than one.
HATE the GPL so much, why are you using SO MUCH GPL'd software? Or
licenses similar to the GPL, such as the Mozilla License that
Thunderbird is released under.
I use it because I got a contract, and was requested to use Linux.
That's why it's on my machine.
Just go start using OpenBSD, and try to keep GPL'd software of it... or
Better yet, Use Windows. No, OSX doesn't count it has tons of GPLd
software on it standard.
You seem very angry that someone doesn't like GPL. If you want
to make your software free, then do so. But don't hamper the
freedom of those to whom you give it. And don't live under
the illusion that GPL'd software is free.
I have written and contributed free software. Really free.
Unlike you. The free software I have created I put into the
Public Domain, because I want it to be free. Unlike you.
You want people who receive "free" software bound by License
Agreements.
So, who's promoting freedom?
Mike
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