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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by Sir_Substance on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:19PM (#9712715)
You could and I bet you would, because you seem like that kind of person, but I wouldn't do that to you so I wish you wouldn't do it to me. That's the jealous control part. Please stop trying to shove your license down my throat with a plunger.
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by gillianseed on Saturday June 13, 2015 @07:43PM (#9713193)
>Please stop trying to shove your license down my throat with a plunger.

Are you kidding? How is he forcing you in any way to use his code ?

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by Sir_Substance on Saturday June 13, 2015 @09:16PM (#9713429)
>If you GPLed your application, there's no licencing headaches.

There'd be way less special snowflake implementations of security protocols, login mechanisms and account systems if this wasn't the prevailing attitude in the open source community.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by anonbanker on Sunday June 14, 2015 @03:04AM (#9714005)
someone's pretending that OpenBSD not only doesn't exist, but doesn't define most of those security protocols.
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by anonbanker on Sunday June 14, 2015 @03:03AM (#9714002)
> Please stop trying to shove your license down my throat with a plunger.

Ad hominems followed by a strawman. Classy.

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