[Discussioni] MS attaca la GPL

[Andrea Capriotti]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Davide Alberani wrote:

> Forse non sarebbe male se la GPL "scadesse": dopo tre o quattro anni
> il codice diventa BSD o public domain.  Lo si propone a RMS? :-)
Puoi leggere cosa ne pensa RMS a questo indirizzo:

http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-summary.txt
[..]
"Before taking questions from the audience, RMS expresses his stance that
a free software movement should focus on long term gain, and that "people
who don't support free software generally adopt a value system in which
the only thing that matters is short-term practical benefits".

http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt
[..]
"And when people see that that's happening, when people see,  other people
take what I do, and they don't ever give back, it can be demoralizing.
And, this is not just speculation.  I had seen that happen.  That was part
of what happened to wipe out the old community that I belonged to the
'70's.  Some people started becoming uncooperative.  And we assumed that
they were profiting thereby.  They certainly acted as if they thought they
were profiting.  And we realized that they can just take off cooperation
and not give back.  And there was nothing we could do about it.  It was
very discouraging.  We, those of us who didn't like the trend, even had a
discussion and we couldn't come up with any idea for how we could stop it.

So, the GPL is designed to stop that.  And it says, Yes, you are welcome
to join the community and use this code.  You can use it to do all sorts
of jobs.  But, if you release a modified version, you've got to release
that to our community, as part of our community, as part of the free
world."

Chi ha banda e tempo puo' ascoltare l'intervento, rigorosamente in ogg, a
questo indirizzo:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/rms_nyu_2001-05-29_part-1.ogg

Saluti
-- 
Andrea Capriotti