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Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back by alecco on Saturday August 03, 2013 @01:26PM (#6152654)
In an ideal world BSD/MIT would be the best choice.

But in the current startup world several aynrandian douchebags would take it and make web services or paid apps. Put a lot of money on viral marketing. Pester them with feature requests. And never, ever contribute back to the community or acknowledge it helped their business.

I know a famous BSD developer who switched to *GPL because of this. Also, search for tptacek's explanation. It's counter-intuitive but this is the best license at the moment, mostly for reasons Stallman didn't forsee.

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Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back by nhaehnle on Saturday August 03, 2013 @01:52PM (#6152739)
It's counter-intuitive but this is the best license at the moment, mostly for reasons Stallman didn't forsee.

Aren't the reasons you outline in your comment exactly (a subset of) the reasons that Stallman foresaw?

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Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back by alecco on Sunday August 04, 2013 @03:05PM (#6156678)
>> Also, search for tptacek's explanation. It's counter-intuitive but this is the best license at the moment, mostly for reasons Stallman didn't forsee.

I was referring to tptaceck's reasons in the previous sentence you missed to quote.

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Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back by nhangen on Saturday August 03, 2013 @01:57PM (#6152758)
what does Ayn Rand have to do with any of this?
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Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back by alecco on Sunday August 04, 2013 @03:08PM (#6156685)
Sociopaths rationalizing themselves as titans of some kind. Economic superheros who shouldn't be bound to basic tit-for-tat rules. Rules even the most primitive cultures follow.
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