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Re:Apple Claims Mogenerator's Methods by AlexMax on Saturday April 12, 2014 @09:07PM (#7579787)
> Responding with the same tactics seems fair.

So you are going to combat the network effects that would establish monopoly control over how people share code by...trying to establish monopoly control over how people share code? Doesn't that seem a wee bit hypocritical to you?

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Re:Apple Claims Mogenerator's Methods by teacup50 on Sunday April 13, 2014 @09:07AM (#7581195)
Seeing as only people who use the GPL would be affected in this hypothetical, no.
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Re:Apple Claims Mogenerator's Methods by eurleif on Sunday April 13, 2014 @04:41PM (#7582917)
And the GPL only affects people who want to write proprietary software. How is the GPL somehow more evil than proprietary software in your worldview?
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Re:Apple Claims Mogenerator's Methods by teacup50 on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:30PM (#7583142)
> And the GPL only affects people who want to write proprietary software.

A GPL-incompatible license isn't proprietary.

> How is the GPL somehow more evil than proprietary software in your worldview?

In the same way that communism is more evil than capitalism.

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