Re:All software sucks
by mpyne on Saturday April 19, 2014 @09:42PM
(#7615446)
> The fact someone else can fork FreeBSD and start selling OppressionCorpBSD doesn't change this at all. Sure, I can't hand out free copies of OppressionCorpBSD, but that doesn't hinder my use of FreeBSD any more than the existence of Windows does.
The point of the GPL is that your use of FreeBSD wouldn't be hindered today, but might be hindered in the future.
Whether you accept the possibility of that scenario as valid or not is up to you, of course, but it's not simply a theoretical threat (after all, RMS witnessed it happen before his very eyes in the days of Lisp machines).
The point of the GPL is that your use of FreeBSD wouldn't be hindered today, but might be hindered in the future.
Whether you accept the possibility of that scenario as valid or not is up to you, of course, but it's not simply a theoretical threat (after all, RMS witnessed it happen before his very eyes in the days of Lisp machines).